[Elecraft] [KX3} Accuracy of clock

[Don Wilhelm]

Gary,

I can't answer for the accuracy of the clock, but if I depended on the 
accuracy of the clock, I would set it just prior to any outing. The 
short term accuracy should be sufficient for logging, but the long term 
accuracy may not be so great.

Compare it to a computer clock.  There is a reason that the computer OS 
re-syncs the clock with a NIST time standard occasionally - that 
compensates for drift in the clock.  With the KX3 (or other transceiver 
clocks), you must do that manually.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 12/1/2013 6:01 PM, Gary Hawkins wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know how accurate is the clock on KX3?  The reason I ask 
> is because I activated a local SOTA peak last weekend and did another 
> peak this weekend.  After setting the clock accurately last weekend, I 
> did not think about checking it this weekend but half way through this 
> weekend's activation I noticed my UTC time setting was 1hr and 17 mins 
> off!  While it was easy enough to correct the log, is the clock 
> expected to drift this much in a week?
>
> Aside, from this KX3 working really well on the hills with AlexLoop.