[SFDXA] SFDXA Digest, Vol 229, Issue 10

Bill bmarx at bellsouth.net
Sun May 14 16:07:37 EDT 2023


The software I sent  earlier,  JTSync gives the opportunity to sync to 
the other stations timing. which I felt was unique and worth sharing.

Of course feel free to rave about your favorite PC Clock software. Mine 
is Dimension 4.
Bill W2CQ


On 5/14/2023 12:56 PM, J.F. Samuels - K2CIB wrote:
>
> Meinberg, or others using Internet time to various servers, works well 
> for local purposes, but not well for stations that are remotely located.
>
> For FT8, for example, and even more important for other more fussy 
> protocols, it is necessary to synchronize on the received signals.  
> The latency of a remotely operated station can be from 100 to 500 
> msec.  Those amounts of latency may not prevent you from decoding FT8 
> signals, but might be a problem if the receiving station also has 
> clock errors.
>
> TimeFudge allows you to manually adjust the time in selected 
> increments to received signals and works well.  JTSync should work 
> well if you use the feature that analyzes the received signals and 
> automatically adjusts the clock, but not the default which is to 
> synchronize with the NTP time.  I could not make the former part work yet.
>
> *
>
> */73, John, K2CIB/*
>
>
>
> *
> On 5/14/2023 12:40 PM, sfdxa-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 16:39:45 +0000
>> From: Howard Rensin<Howard at rensin.com>
>> To:"sfdxa at mailman.qth.net"  <sfdxa at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: [SFDXA] Computer time updates
>> Message-ID:<8f8482ad277647f2a3f42eed3f544ef0 at ADEX.Rensin.com>
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>>
>> I have used Meinberg NTP on all my PCs for a long time. It is written in assembler so it is very light on the OS. It runs in the background and easily installs and it's free.
>> Every time I check my PC against Time. Is it is always within. 06 seconds.
>> Strongly recommend this software for great time keeping.
>> Howard
>> KC3D
>>
>
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