[Elecraft] Clock Accuracy

[Bill Frantz]

Apologies to Eric who closed this thread, but getting Macs to 
work is on topic and generally not covered much on this list. 
Please tell me if I am off base and I'll try to clean up my act.

The built in Mac time synch works very well. Since I sometimes 
operate where there is no Internet access, I am thrown back on 
the accuracy of the computer clock. I can get enough off that 
FT8 doesn't work any more. The solution is to fire up my phone 
as a hot spot, connect to it, and use the Date and Time panel to 
change the time provider away from North America and back. That 
gooses the software into doing a synch and then things are good again.

I have never gotten manual setting of the time to work well 
enough for FT8. I would love a technique that worked well for 
when that rare DX is the one that is off. A QSO in both logs is 
more valuable than correct time.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 10/19/19 at 11:50 PM, randyh at greywolfstudios.com (Randy 
Heise) wrote:

>As a new FT-8 user on my K2, I find this thread fascinating. 
>But all these software solutions appear to be for PC’s. Is 
>there something equivalent for Macs?

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