My laptop, which I use for FT8, fires up about 2.5 seconds off. That's
unusable for FT8, which is why I use Meinberg NTP to sync it. I
couldn't care less if it was 2 minutes off for logging (even for
contesting), but for FT8 it should be, as you say, 0.5 seconds or better
for best results. Meinberg (which is free) puts me within one or two
tenths of a second of everyone else.
Dave AB7E
On 10/19/2019 12:32 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
For logging purposes +/- a few seconds is relatively unimportant. For timed or
sequence transmissions 0.5 seconds seems adequate. I see on reason to maintain
microsecond timing.
Remember, it's only a hobby.
Bob, K4TAX
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 19, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Tox <[email protected]> wrote:
Typical NTP implementations only query every N minutes. Might check to see
if your implementation also checks at startup, but if you're just
suspend/waking a windows laptop it may not be triggering that sort of
event, and just waiting for next scheduled update.
Good luck
Scott
AD6YT
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019, 10:43 AM David Gilbert <[email protected]>
wrote:
I don't have to rerun Meinberg. It does everything by itself. For some
reason it just doesn't seem to do it on startup ... it takes a few
minutes before it kicks in. So far I haven't figured out why.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 10/19/2019 4:37 AM, David Woolley wrote:
There is something wrong if you have to re-run a Windows installer
every time that you boot Windows! The Meinberg product is just an
installer; the actual software installed is the open source NTP
reference implementation, currently owned by the University of
Delaware, and developed under the leadership of David Mills W3HCF.
The reference version means the version used to verify the
implementability of the specification in the RFC document.
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