[CQ-Contest] Internet free computer time syncronization???

[Jerry Flanders]

A conventional GPS that has a standard serial connection can furnish 
accurate time synch to the PC. Not sure what software is required, but I 
believe UI-View has it built-in. Maybe other products as well.

I was considering adding a cheap GPS to this computer for time synch, but 
then was able to hook it to my home network instead, so now it gets its 
time synch from the internet via freeware NetLab 1.4 instead. Back when I 
shopped, I found GPS refurbs as low as $50 (TripMate brand).

The very early computer clocks could be adjusted for drift. Don't know if 
any motherboards still offer that - maybe you could hack an outboard 
circuit to do it for your motherboard, then have the opsys reset the 
software clock from that periodically??

Jerry W4UK

At 08:40 6/25/02 -0700, paule at sfu.ca wrote:
>I was recently introduced to Beaconsee and at one station where
>I would like to use it, relying on the internet for clock
>syncronization is not realistic. Does anyone know of a
>cost effective means of doing this? I have been looking
>for an "atomic clock" which connects to the computer,
>similar to an alarm clock I have, but so far I have
>not found one. One product I found that uses satellites
>costs around $500, which is out of the question.
>
>Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
>cheers, Paul - VA7NT