[time-nuts] Discipline an oscillator with NTP?

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Sat Jul 23 17:40:23 UTC 2011


Hi

Same issue with NTP. As long as you aren't on a link with nasty asymmetry problems or highly variable delays. There's also the basic "do I trust the server" issue. You can indeed trust WWV as transmitted. 

Bob

On Jul 23, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Jim Lux wrote:

> On 7/23/11 9:42 AM, Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> The simple answer is that normal NTP via the net will give you accuracy similar to the "zero beat to WWV" approach. It will take a few days to get to that level. Much faster to fire up the radio and use WWV.
>> 
>> Bob
> 
> 
> If you aren't somewhere that has no radio (e.g. underground, in a electrically noisy EMI environment, underwater, etc.)
> 
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