[Elecraft] K3 RTC - Battery and more

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

I'm kinda lost here, I thought this thread started with the K3 clock losing
time - what's RTC? - Is it Real Time Clock, in which case, that's what it
is. If you meant Radio Time Control, that it is not afaik.
So I don't believe this rig is picking up time signals from anywhere?

Someone put me right here if I've got this wrong?

My K3 clock, which I set about 18 hrs ago and the rig has been off for about
the last 12 of those, has lost about 4 seconds.

Now I don't think that's particularly good, even if its based on simple
electronics with no kind of sync with network etc.

I presume Eric or Wayne will see this post sometime and so they will be
aware, but I'm not about to worry them or me about it right now, they have
enough on their plates.

73 de M0XDF, K3 # 174, HexKey # 375

On 24/1/08 19:30, "Arnie Grubbs" <vhuntertdi at yahoo.com> sent:

> Well, found that the battery that I used on the  RTC backup was NG.
> Measured it and it didn't have any B+.  I had another of the same
> size and now the battery backup works FB!
> 
>   
> Also, as far as time keeping, it seems my radio looses about
>  1 second each min.  In  1 hour 16 min. it was off by 1 min. 12 sec.
> compared to WWV on 5Mhz.
> 
> Strange thing is, it must be looking at the RTC chip for an update
> of the time when ever you change bands. Change bands and it 'resyncs'
> to the WWV time that the RTC chip must be keeping. Seems that the
> 'software' clock is the 'looser'. Now that I have a good battery for
> the RTC chip the RTC keeps good time!
> 
> Guess it might be something for the 'to do' list to check on the
> clock software in the "ROS" - Radios operating system... :)
> 
> 73 - Arnie KA0NCR
> K3-100 #185
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