Radio Clock / Maritime Chronometer

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My Radio Room Clock of course shows UTC always

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As a draft here is one of my first programs. It is by far not ready yet, but already working and looking nice. It is rescalable, does not have graphics, oinly those I am calculating with Gambas and I fiddled around with the Gfx of the language a bit with this. Still, there is no UTC clock in radio style anywhere and so this as a first draft, so that you can see, I'm not just talking, there is actually a bit of coding going on.

No comments, no cleanup in the code. I will do that in a later version and it is also still too new to community-post this, I think.

I am now working on a good way to post shadows on the clock dial, need to create the brazzen ring around it and have not made a logo yet. The style is past 1948 atm, so the Silent Period for telephony (green) is drawn. I hope to make that configurable. Also at that moment, clicking on the face does still not transfer the UTC time into the clipboard and no connection to any radio is happening in the background. If you turn on the border, you can draw it bigger or smaller, but because the redraw is still a bit ugly if I allow that, I have turned to border off for now. I should also turn off resizing, but if you activate the border over Alt-F3 is it, I think on my MX/Plasma, you can do to the clock what you want.

The hour and minute will progress by the lesser dials, so the minute dial will progress by seconds, the hours by seconds and minutes and so on.

I did not do a quarter second progress for the second yet, because I am not sure if I should. My own clock does the second skip, older chronometer of this kind have a quarter second heart and not that battery powered crystal one, that I have.

The sectors in green are Silent Periods for telephony, the red for telegraphy, where you should listen to emergency calls and not transmit yourself. The red lines around are the auto-alarm 4-sec tone 1-sec pause patters to ring other operators from their bunks. Design is inspired by Hamburg WEMPE choronometers, but I have also been influenced by older wartime ones and the stuff that was used after the war, so it should not be a copy of anything.

How to do shadows is the next thing to come.

If someone knows an elegant way, I'm all ears.

Have fun.
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