There is a lot of variation in the RTC's oscillator's frequency. I know 4 or 5 K3 owners, and all theirs have different errors. Mine is slow by about 1 second per day, but one of the guys has his fast by about 3 seconds per month.
You may be able to parallel a trimmer of 2-4 pF at the capacitor near the 32 KHz crystal, but this will only help adjust in one direction. My solution is to periodically sync the PC time with GPS time (about twice a week), then use the K3 Utility to set the K3's time. Of the two, the laptop is off by a greater amount. You can also set your PC to sync with NIST time standards using NTP. On Win XP, this is limited to once per week, but Win8 may have better granularity in its options. 73, matt W6NIA On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 08:13:36 -0600, you wrote: >Mine is about 2 secs per month. Having come from the 'wind-up' era, this is >great. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: WO0W > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 11:50 AM > Subject: [Elecraft] Clock loses time > > > The clock on my K3 loses time faster than any of the cheap watches I've > used in several years and that is a nuisance, as I would like to use the > clock to lot my QSOs. > > Is there any fix for it? > > 73, WOØW > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > 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:[email protected] > >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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
