[Elecraft] OT setting your computer to NIST

[Don Wilhelm]

Gary,

If you are on a Windows platform, look into Atomic Clock Sync.  It can 
sync periodically or manually and the user interface is easy.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/26/2015 2:03 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
> 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
> fm
> 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
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