[time-nuts] NTP apps on Windows question

[Tim Shoppa]

My feeling is that if you do not have competing applications fighting for
control of the clock, and your clock time is visibly correct to a second,
that your problem is not the system time.

Meinberg ntpd by default disables w32time but it may not disable other
applications (you mentioned a few of them) you have installed that are
fighting for the system clock.

Tim N3QE

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 5:00 PM Chris Wilson <chris at chriswilson.tv> wrote:

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>   24/09/2019 19:58
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> I have used Meinberg NTP and also Thinking Man's Dimension 4 as NTP
> applications on Windows 7 64 bit OS's on 3 PC's. I use them to sync
> the PC time for WSJT-X WSPR (a low power digital amateur radio mode)
> which requires an accurate time on the PC's for successful decoding
> and transmitting of digital signals.
>
> Both Dimension 4 and Meinberg have occasionally not allowed proper
> syncing with the WSPR application attempting to decode up to 4 seconds
> late, despite my Trimble Thunderbolt and Lady Heather showing the PC
> is synced to GPS time within less than a second, by eye.
>
>
> I am now trying another NTP app by DL4YHF Wolfgang Buscher. My
> questions are, is such an anomaly known and should I disable Windows
> Internet Time synchronization when using another NTP app? I see no
> mention of disabling this in any of the NTP application's notes... The
> WSPR application, WSJT-X has very recently been released in a 64 bit
> version, which is what I am using, and I have to wonder if the new
> version has some minor bug as I find it hard to believe two well known
> and used NTP apps are buggy.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
>        Best Regards,
>                    Chris Wilson.
> mailto: chris at chriswilson.tv
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