[Elecraft] Timekeeping (was Re: CODEC)

[Dave B]

You might as well say, why use an OS that was originally designed to run
on 16 bit hardware.

Like Windows (and I'm /not/ a MS fan)  Meinberg (and others including
NTP/NTPD itself) have moved on along with the times.

It's the NTP protocol handling that's important, not the GUI you see.  
But by all means use a recent implementation as there have been security
(DDoS) issues with some implementations of NTP in the not too distant
past.   But that's only an issue if you plan to make "Your" time,
available to others on the Internet.

There is nothing stopping you from building your own local shack GPS
driven NTP server either.  Use a R'Pi etc.

https://satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html

or

https://robrobinette.com/pi_GPS_PPS_Time_Server.htm

for example.   You can then sync all your shack PC's to the same time,
not needing any external internet, though it's useful for when a GPS RX
fails, or it's power supply...

73.

Dave G0WBX


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On 09/10/18 13:29, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> But if they want to install a third party time sync program they are 
> better off installing W3HCF's definitive implementation of the NTP 
> protocol, rather than a program that was, I believe, really designed for 
> Windows 3.1/95.

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