[Elecraft] OT setting your computer to NIST

[Gary Smith]

I've not been able to get my windows 
computer to automatically update for a 
long time now and I've tried everything I 
could uncover via google & forums. 

Since I use the computer for logging and 
contesting, having the real time on my 
computer is important so I've had to tune 
to WWV and manually sync the minutes and 
seconds and doing this repeatedly is a PIT 
kiester. Even with a new battery, this 
computer loses 5-6 seconds a month and I 
dislike having to constantly go through 
the resetting procedure. 

I found the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, a govt. agency, 
has a free software that will do this for 
you.

http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.c
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or: http://tinyurl.com/4s9agpw

There's a tiny learning curve and for a 
server under the file button, I needed to 
select the 2nd option and checked the NTP 
format option for it to work but it now 
updates in maybe 2 seconds and gives you 
the option of syncing in real time or not.

Once you have it working, save the config 
under the file option and it will remember 
your selected option.

I'm assuming we all want our time to be 
correct so I'm posting this here and on a 
couple of other Ham groups I follow.

Now back to our regularly scheduled 
Elecraft postings.

73,

Gary
KA1J