You know, I always thought that the Elecraft K3 was and will always be an Amateur Radio Transceiver. That it has a clock in it is a bonus, that it is as accurate as it is is also a bonus.
It seems to me that some of the more anally retentive of us in here want it to be a clock with an Amateur Radio Transceiver installed. For gods sake, get over it............ Its an Amateur Radio Transceiver (And a damned good one at that!). If you want an accurate clock so bad go and buy a cesium standard and set it up. (Or use a Silicon chip magazine kit that can lock almost any clock to a GPS signal.) No, can we PLEASE go back to our normal programming??? Jeff Cochrane VK4BOF Innisfail QLD Australia Elecraft K3 #4257 ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Clock Accuracy i used to use the windows XCP "sync by internet to NIST time" function but after having my computer clock set 14 seconds and 17 seconds off utc i ALWAYS double check and independant source...the k3 is the most convenient Dave -----Original Message----- From: Don Wilhelm [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:15 PM To: Dave Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Clock Accuracy But those modes are computer generated, and the computer clock can be easily sync'ed with a NIST standard. I don't know why anyone would want to use a free-running clock for anything that requires that degree of accuracy. The RTC in the K2 or the K3 is intended only for a logging convenience when no other timepiece is available. I cannot believe it was ever intended to be a precision clock standard. If you err in your log entry by 30 seconds, does anyone care? 73, Don W3FPR Dave wrote: > Some digital (HF) modes require transmissions timed to start within 1 second > accuracy. I learnt a long time ago not to use the internal K3 clock for that > purpose. > > Dave > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
