[time-nuts] Discipline an oscillator with NTP?

[WB6BNQ]

I must say Jason,

Yes, you are day dreaming, but hey, that is where ideas come from.

I do not play with NTP, but isn't that the same thing ( or similar) as disciplining my local clock when I have it update against a
reference like NIST over the Internet ?  In other words, NTP is used to keep the local computer clock in sync and thus is basically
keeping an oscillator disciplined so to speak.

As to how you would directly make the hardware deal with the oscillator instead of just updating a register dealing with the time, I
do not know.  I am sure it can probably be done.

Bill....WB6BNQ


Jason Rabel wrote:

> I was just thinking (dangerous I know)... Has anyone attempted to build a stand-alone oscillator that is disciplined via NTP?
>
> i.e. NTP keeps it on-frequency... And I'm not talking about NTP that is locked to a local GPS, I'm curious about purely syncing to
> other NTP servers over a network. (The presumption is that you have no access to GPS, WWVB, Cellular, or similar.)
>
> Is it even possible or am I just day dreaming?
>
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