All This posting by Fred gets my vote - easy, fool proof and does not distract the dev team.
-- 73’s Tom GM8MJV (IO85) On 24 Jun 2019, at 09:27, Fred Price <n...@hotmail.com> wrote: > You are all overthinking the problem. There are programs to set your computer > clock by a GPS dongle. A good plug in dongle from Amazon is $12USD and the > program I use BktTimeSync is a free download. > Also if the dev group keeps adding more n more WSJT will become bloatware. > I'd rather see improvements in what is in the software already. If you want a > color to denote a time that is getting out use JTAlert, it already has that > in it. > > On Jun 24, 2019 4:07 AM, "DG2YCB, Uwe" <dg2...@gmx.de> wrote: > A very good idea to set up time beacons, Reino! I like this approach! > > > However, as a short-term solution IMO dev team should find a way to use the > EXISTING data set of DT values for a pop-up saying that very likely time is > not synced correctly, plus an option to correct time by one click. Look the > following example. Only one station has a DT value which is totally out of > the average. Would be easy to detect such things by any well programmed > algorithm. Even the old JT65-HF software had two additional buttons, where > one could simply set PC clock + or – some 100 ms (until +- 2.5 s). Was very > helpful for fieldday activities. Just click on + or – as long as most of the > other stations have DT around 0. Simple approach, but worked 100%. > > > > > > 73 de Uwe, DG2YCB > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Hi, > > > We are amateurs and could provide another time distribution experiment > especially during Field Day events. I mean setting up time beacon or beacons > that send e.g. every 15 s a short pulse, say 100 ms, on the base carrier > frequency e.g. 14.080 MHz. Timing of that pulse could be 'minute mark - 1 s' > or something similar agreed time. It would allow manual PC time setting in > the same manner as time marks of standard frequency stations. That > transmission would not disturb any FT8 message as nobody should transmit at > that time. It could be more useful, if the beacon frequency is set to 1 kHz > up (14.081), then you could hear it without detuning VFO and disturbing you > normal operation. Well, you could get same information from dT values > providing there are enough time accuracy in other stations and you timing is > good enough for decoding. > > > Of course those beacons should be carefully synchronized to an accurate time > reference e.g. GPS. Depending on local regulations also a station identity > shall be sent at regular intervals using some applicable modulation perhaps > just before the time tick. I think that voluntary stations would provide this > service as needed. > > > You could automate the time setting with a suitable program, if that could be > made safely and reliably (perhaps the pulses needs to be modulated for > identification), but that's next step if ever considered useful. > > > 73 Reino oh3ma > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wsjt-devel mailing list > > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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