[Elecraft] Clock Accuracy

[Don Wilhelm]

Craig,

A personal AMEN to that.  I have two clocks in the hamshack that I use - 
the atomic clock which also tells me the date and day of the week in 
addition to both the indoor and outdoor temperature, and the MFJ 24 hour 
analog clock on the wall which is set to GMT.  I can tell at a glance 
what the time is, no button pushing and I don't care what the K3 clock 
says.  When logging, I get the hour from the 24 hour clock and the 
minutes from the atomic clock - works for me.  If I take my K3 "out for 
the weekend", I can use K3 Utility to sync it to the computer clock just 
before I leave.  If the K3 clock ends up 30 seconds off after two days, 
do I care?  Not a bit!  Actually out in the field, I use my wristwatch 
in preferrence to the K3 clock, but maybe that is just my choice - can't 
teach an old dog new tricks!

My computer clock is quite accurate because it syncs every day to a NIST 
standard.  I run Atomic Clock Sync (Google for it) as a service on the 
computer - meets my needs.

73,
Don W3FPR

Craig D. Smith wrote:
> The clock on my K3 isn't terribly accurate either.  But I've since learned
> how to deal with it.  Pretty much every piece of electronics you buy these
> days has a clock in it.  I've found absolutely zero correlation between the
> accuracy of the clocks and the overall quality or cost of the equipment.
> The worst clock here is in a $6K Agilent scope!
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