[Elecraft] Clock Accuracy

[The Smiths]

When did 2 second a month, or even 4 minutes in 4 months make a due or die situation people.. It's a clock guy... reset it if it's wrong. 

This is ham radio people, not NASA science...Okay, you're log is off by 2 seconds... How far off do you think the other guy your talking to has his clock off.. My guess is it doesn't match yours no matter how accurate you have it in the K3. Are we done yet? I belive Wayne already told you how to adjust it.


 


 
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:17:08 -0400
> From: w3fpr at embarqmail.com
> To: craig at powersmith.net
> CC: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Clock Accuracy
> 
> 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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