Re: [Elecraft] K3 Clock loses time
I calibrate my K3 clock to the computer every couple of weeks and it is never more than 15 seconds off or so. This has been addressed before on the list serve. Hope this helps. - Brian, op K1NW -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Clock-loses-time-tp7567830p7567831.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Clock loses time
I have not measured the accuracy of the clock but I expect it to lose time. And, I never refer to it, never use it. I have a big wall clock that above the K3 that tells me the time (actually, it does not tell me the time, I have to look at it) but it loses a good minute or two per week. I let it get as much as several minutes in error before I bother to correct it. My watch is pretty good though. I set it about three times a year and I have never had it more than two-seconds from accurate Internet time. It is a Citizen EcoDrive -- powered by light! A corollary question: who actually uses the K3 clock? 73, phil, K7PEH On Dec 28, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Jon Stromsland jonrost...@sbcglobal.net wrote: This is a subject I have not seen before on the net. I have noticed that the clock on my K3 loses a few seconds every day. Is this normal and has anyone else noticed this? Jon WA6LJS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Clock loses time
Yes. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Clock-loses-time-tp7567830p7567834.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Clock loses time
I only vaguely remember how to find the clock display on my K3, just did, and it is about 1 year and a week off. I don't remember when I last set it. Likewise with the clock in the K2. I never look at them. I'm currently building a 40-station irrigation controller for my Kamikaze Gardener wife [replaces 6 aging timers in the basement] using a pair of Microchip PICs and the Hamstack components. The C Library includes Unix-like timekeeping off the CPU clock. It is remarkably accurate [fast by about a second/week], but the library has an adjustment function in parts/10E-8. With that, I've gotten it to stay with WWV to within a second over 5 months or so. I suppose something like that could be built into the K3/K3 Utility, but I really doubt very many people use the clock. There have to be higher priority items on Wayne's K3 to-do list ... including displaying the K3 output power I can expect when I first tap the paddles after switching the KPA500 between STBY and OPER ... I hope. :-) My not-terribly-expensive Casio analog/digital watch that I used when traveling for my employer [does multiple time zones] needs to be set whenever it needs a new battery. Other than that, it's within a second or two of WWV all the time. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013 - www.cqp.org On 12/28/2012 12:00 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: I have not measured the accuracy of the clock but I expect it to lose time. And, I never refer to it, never use it. I have a big wall clock that above the K3 that tells me the time (actually, it does not tell me the time, I have to look at it) but it loses a good minute or two per week. I let it get as much as several minutes in error before I bother to correct it. My watch is pretty good though. I set it about three times a year and I have never had it more than two-seconds from accurate Internet time. It is a Citizen EcoDrive -- powered by light! __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Clock loses time
The clock on my K3 loose time quite fast. at least a few seconds a day. On 12/28/2012 1:50 PM, Jon Stromsland wrote: This is a subject I have not seen before on the net. I have noticed that the clock on my K3 loses a few seconds every day. Is this normal and has anyone else noticed this? Jon WA6LJS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Clock loses time
The only time I ever use it is when I run down to the shack and work a rare DX station before my logging computer has a chance to boot! On 12/28/2012 12:00 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: A corollary question: who actually uses the K3 clock? -- Vic, K2VCO Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Clock loses time
I use it to make sure I've got the right UTC -- local time offset. My iPhone also knows UTC. Oh, and RUMlog also knows UTC. I probably don't use it more than two or three times a year. I set it to my computer's time every time I run the K3 utility, which is at least every time I hear on this list of a new version of the firmware. It is usually off by 20 seconds or so, which is plenty accurate enough to check the UTC offset. :-) On the other hand, my computer uses network time protocol and has been spot on every time I've listened to WWV. Cheers - Bill, AE6JV/1 On 12/28/12 at 12:00 PM, phys...@mac.com (Phil Hystad) wrote: A corollary question: who actually uses the K3 clock? --- Bill Frantz| gets() remains as a monument | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | to C's continuing support of | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | buffer overruns. | Los Gatos, CA 95032 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Clock loses time
Jon, I searched the Nabble site and found a long thread from June 24, 2010 with the title clock accuracy. Worth reading through. - Brian, op K1NW -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Clock-loses-time-tp7567830p7567857.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] [K3] clock loses time
I use it constantly to make sure I figure the utc hour correctly for paper log entries. It loses time. I just set it forward and put it a couple minutes ahead. I think I adjust it every few months, maybe even six months. Not a issue for me. I had to think a minute how to change the minutes so apparently I'm not doing it often. 73 Mike R Play me some fiddle, but no stinkin' violin! Amateur/Ham Radio KE5GBC HF Echolink mobile __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
