RHF wrote:
On Jan 3, 6:14 am, David wrote:
msg wrote:
RHF wrote:
On Jan 1, 10:00 pm, Greg wrote:
I must be incredibly nerdy, because I spent 10 minutes the other day
getting my new G5's clock to click over at the exact moment the minute
tone on the WWV station began.
I've noticed, however, that after a few hours the minute clicks over
before the tone, and in fact after a day, up to 4 or 5 seconds. Has
anyone else noticed the G5's clock not being very accurate?
Greg - It's a 'portable' AM-FM Shortwave Radio
-not- a WWVB Radio Controlled Clock. ~ RHF
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But it should be; I feel that _any_ clock in a SW rcvr that is also
used for controlling the rig should be radio controlled. The chipsets
are so cheap now that cost is really not an excuse. Since the clock
is embedded in a rcvr, the mcu could select the source WWVB, WWV, CHU,
etc. as propagation dictates.
Regards,
Michael
- I don't know of any clocks that synchronize automatically
- to WWV or CHU.
- As far as I know there's WWVB and a station in Germany.
-
- The cheapest most accurate clocks are the ones that use
- the AC mains for a timebase.


David,

Yes - Once the 'common' Home Clock that is Powered by the
AC Mains is Manually Set : They are Accurate-to-the-Minute :
Day-in and Day-out [.]

And . . . IMHO for Day-to-Day Living - Accurate-to-the-Minute
Is Good Enough !


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They are accurate to the second,on average. They might speed up for a
while, but then they slow down to compensate (and vice versa).

The Drake R8B clock synchronizes to the power lines, as do many alarm
clocks.