[Dx4win] DX spots sometimes seem to stall-Maybe reason discovered!

[Pete Smith]

At 01:17 PM 3/14/03 -0800, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>Some time servers are bad, and Tardis will grab a bad time off them.  Once I
>logged a bunch of QSOs 91 minutes off because I got a bad time from a server.
>It was only luck that I noticed the problem.
>
>There is a setting in Tardis called "Maximum Correction Allowed" which should
>prevent this from happening, i.e. it would just ignore a bad server and 
>set the
>time at the next interval.


This is a good point.  For reasons I don't understand, some software, 
running in the background under windows, can also disrupt timekeeping.  I 
use automachron for internet time -- a big feature for me when I was 
chasing a clock problem was its logging feature that would tell you hoe 
much of a correction had been applied each interval.  I finally tracked my 
problem down to a redundant sound card mixer that was running in the 
background!  The hardware it related to was disabled in the BIOS but it 
kept doing something disruptive anyway.


73, Pete N4ZR
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