[Elecraft] KX3 Accuracy of clock

[Walter Underwood]

On a Mac, open System Preferences, click on the Date & Time pane, and check the box for "Set date and time automatically".

On Unix, read the appropriate RFCs and man pages. For extra credit, search the web for "ntp groper" and see what I was doing twenty years ago.

wunder
K6WRU

On Dec 2, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Phil Kane <k2asp at kanafi.org> wrote:

> On 12/2/2013 8:19 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
> 
>> That page says there is a built-in way to keep your clock synced, but
>> it is hard to find. Why not just walk people through the
>> documentation?
> 
> Try this:
> 
>   1. Start the *Registry Editor*
>   2. Go to *HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Services
>      \ W32Time \ TimeProviders \ NtpClient \*
>   3. Double-click the *SpecialPollInterval* value, and change the Base
>      of the *Value data* to *Decimal*
>   4. Now change the *Value data* to the time interval you desire,
>      noting that the time is given in seconds (so for 1 day the value
>      would be *86400*,    while the default (7 days) is *604800*
>   5. Close the registry editor
> 
> I set my Windows 7 interval at 3600 (1 hour).
> 
> Warning - as my son the IT specialist says of Registry modifications
> "Danger - There Be Dragons".  Back up the Registry before proceeding and
> if you are skittish about such surgery, don't do it.
> ----
> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
> 
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> Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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Walter Underwood
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