[geeks] ntp rant

[Dave McGuire]

On January 9, Bill Bradford wrote:
> If they can make big jumbo LCD clocks that sync via WWV, why
> cant someone make a cheap (under $100) one that can serve as a
> halfway-decent NTP time source (via serial)?

  There are several available.  I will dig up the info and send it to
the list.  WWVB is what you want, by the way, not WWV.

> I'd love to have some kind of good GPS or shortwave-based NTP
> timesource here at the house.  Right now I'm just syncing to
> a few local, regional, and national NTP servers, with all of
> my home machines syncing off a box here...
> 
> (yes, I saw Dave McGuire's setup, and have been drooling ever since..)

  It was cool, but it had a lot of problems on the computer interfacing
side of the system.  I need to do a lot of work on it before it can
serve as a "real" stratum-1 time source.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf