You are all overthinking the problem. There are programs to set your computer clock by a GPS dongle. A good plug in dongle from Amazon is $12USD and the program I use BktTimeSync is a free download. Also if the dev group keeps adding more n more WSJT will become bloatware. I'd rather see improvements in what is in the software already. If you want a color to denote a time that is getting out use JTAlert, it already has that in it.
On Jun 24, 2019 4:07 AM, "DG2YCB, Uwe" <dg2...@gmx.de> wrote: A very good idea to set up time beacons, Reino! I like this approach! However, as a short-term solution IMO dev team should find a way to use the EXISTING data set of DT values for a pop-up saying that very likely time is not synced correctly, plus an option to correct time by one click. Look the following example. Only one station has a DT value which is totally out of the average. Would be easy to detect such things by any well programmed algorithm. Even the old JT65-HF software had two additional buttons, where one could simply set PC clock + or – some 100 ms (until +- 2.5 s). Was very helpful for fieldday activities. Just click on + or – as long as most of the other stations have DT around 0. Simple approach, but worked 100%. [cid:image001.png@01D52A74.67D123B0] 73 de Uwe, DG2YCB -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Hi, We are amateurs and could provide another time distribution experiment especially during Field Day events. I mean setting up time beacon or beacons that send e.g. every 15 s a short pulse, say 100 ms, on the base carrier frequency e.g. 14.080 MHz. Timing of that pulse could be 'minute mark - 1 s' or something similar agreed time. It would allow manual PC time setting in the same manner as time marks of standard frequency stations. That transmission would not disturb any FT8 message as nobody should transmit at that time. It could be more useful, if the beacon frequency is set to 1 kHz up (14.081), then you could hear it without detuning VFO and disturbing you normal operation. Well, you could get same information from dT values providing there are enough time accuracy in other stations and you timing is good enough for decoding. Of course those beacons should be carefully synchronized to an accurate time reference e.g. GPS. Depending on local regulations also a station identity shall be sent at regular intervals using some applicable modulation perhaps just before the time tick. I think that voluntary stations would provide this service as needed. You could automate the time setting with a suitable program, if that could be made safely and reliably (perhaps the pulses needs to be modulated for identification), but that's next step if ever considered useful. 73 Reino oh3ma _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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