From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 09:26:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07596 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:26:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vail.vsys.com (vail.vsys.com [166.93.219.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA07500 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 09:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@vsys.com) Received: from alta (alta.vsys.com [209.38.48.10]) by vail.vsys.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA14143; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:24:04 -0600 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:37:32 -0600 Message-ID: <01BDA4DC.41124A40.alex@vsys.com> From: Alex Barclay To: "'Ron G. Minnich'" , "questions@freebsd.org" Cc: "netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: timed where can I connect? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:37:31 -0600 Organization: Vsys X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, July 01, 1998 6:16 AM, Ron G. Minnich [SMTP:rminnich@sarnoff.com] wrote: > For those of you looking to get good time: check out the kits from the > tucson amateur packet radio club. You can for about $150 get a kit that > allows you to build a stratum 1 clock! the kit requires that you place a > patch antenna (about 4" by 4") against a window, since it uses 3 or more > GPS satellites for time. We've had one for months and it works quite well. > no more hunting for servers on the net. All our hosts are synced to a > FreeBSD PC that serves as our time server. Ouch... That's kind of expensive if you just want time. Why not get one of the kits for the LF transmissions from Boulder, US in North America or Rugby, UK for western Europe. (I think there is a German source also covering Europe) These transmissions (Boulder and Rugby) are 60KHz AM at 1pps. The actual date is encoded in the 1pps (differently for the two though) My reciever for this cost me about $10. (It was my design, still a kit should cost less than $30). The antenna is a ferrite rod, like the old AM radios used. A. -- Alex Barclay E-mail: alex@vsys.com Vsys Tel: +1 719 635 8066 x 17 731 N.Weber, Suite 202 Page: +1 719 477 5190 Colorado Springs, CO 80903 Fax: +1 719 635 1420 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message