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echo: scanners
to: TOM SUTHERLAND
from: FRANK GLOVER
date: 1998-02-12 13:25:00
subject: RS RADIO-CONTROLLED C

 
 TW> But the Data for use by the Autonatic resetting Clocks is only
 TW> broadcast on WWVB no matter what the Instruction book says.
 TS>      This has nothing to do with that. However, I have a little
 TS>      program that sets your computer clock, via the Internet.
 
   With the likely delays enroute? That would be interesting. I have one
that calls the NIST directly. Long distance true, but the process takes less 
than thirty seconds. It even bounces a few bits back and forth a few times 
first, to allow for delays in the line (espically if your phone connection is 
via satellite), before the final setting.
 
   Extremely accurate time is important espically for satellite tracking, and 
even more so if you have computer controlled az-el antenna rotors. If the 
beamwith is narrow, a few seconds off can leave you leading or trailing the 
sat, and maybe not hearing it at all.
 
   Frank
 
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