[Elecraft] KXBC3 Clock Drift

[Clay Autery]

Yes and no...  the utility will sync time with whatever computer/laptop
that is running the utility...  The accuracy of the computer is
independent of the utility.

This is what I am currently doing...  I have an NTP client running that
is keeping my laptop to within a few milliseconds....
Periodically, I shut down Win4K3 Suite and crank up the K3 Utility, and
sync the time...

It's a bit fidgety...  don't always get a good sync...  So the radio is
never more accurate than the computer, and seldom matches the computer
on sync to less than 1/10th of a second or so best case...  luck of the
draw/random as to how close the sync ends up...

RIght now, not a big deal...  but on some of the digital modes, I am
given to understand that having the time sync pretty close is key to
function...


73,

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Clay Autery, KY5G
MONTAC Enterprises
(318) 518-1389

On 8/28/2016 12:43 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
> Doesn’t the K3 Utility have a one-click process for setting the K3’s on-board clock time to UTC Internet time?  It doesn’t make the clock any more accurate, but it does offer a way of resetting without getting into the configuration menu.  As I recall it’s in the KX3 Utility as well.
>
> Ted, KN1CBR
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>     From: Ken G Kopp <kengkopp at gmail.com>
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>     Virtually everyone has cellphone at hand and it will provide the most
>     accurate time commonly available.
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>     73!
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>     K0PP
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