[bars] WSJT-X tip

[Tony Vehulst]

Thanks for the tip

Tony, W1DYS
https://www.soarboston.com/inststud/SOARING/index.htm

On 8/5/2023 6:41 PM, Juan Jiménez wrote:
> One thing FT-8 is sensitive to is your computer's clock, which has to 
> be accurately sync'd with a time server. If you are running on 
> Windows, the default is to update your clock once a week using the NTP 
> protocol and a Microsoft time server. WSJT-X recommends installing 
> software to update more often, but that's not necessary. It's easier 
> to use Regedit. The key to change the auto time sync time interval 
> settings is located at:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient
>
> The key name is *SpecialPollInterval *and the type is DWORD. The 
> default value is 604800 (decimal) or 0x00093a80 (hexadecimal). That 
> number is the seconds between update. Change the value to 86400 to 
> auto time sync every day. Don't make it much shorter than that or you 
> risk getting blocked for swamping the server with requests. This works 
> on all versions of Windows back to XP.
>
> Windows uses NTP, not SNTP, and you can also change the NTP server it 
> uses here:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters
>
> ...in the *NTPServer* key.
>
> 73,
> K1CPR
> Juan
>
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