[ntp:questions] Re: refclock WWV on freeBSD 5.3
David L. Mills
mills at udel.edu
Thu Dec 23 21:09:19 UTC 2004
David,
Any time I see 255 in the AGC value, I'm really suspicious about a
mismatched audio level problem. I suspect something is broken in the
audio interface, cabling or level setting.
Dave
david.margrave at gmail.com wrote:
> okay, I made on minor mistake. The system default ntpd was still
> sitting in /usr/sbin, and that is the one that complained 'refclock 36
> unsupported'.
>
> The 'port' version at /usr/local/bin/ntpd, which I had to hand-edit the
> config for, seems to be working. I don't have a timecode yet since
> WWV10 is down in the crud at the moment, but at least something appears
> to be happening with the refclock:
>
> 53361 85921.438 127.127.36.0 wwv8 2 255 WV15 0 1 8.4 14534 1680
> 14534
> 53361 85921.438 127.127.36.0 wwv8 2 255 WH15 0 1 9.6 234625 1680
> 234625
> 53361 85981.430 127.127.36.0 wwv8 2 255 WV15 0 2 8.6 362054 7280
> 362054
> 53361 85981.431 127.127.36.0 wwv8 2 255 WH15 0 3 9.9 203900 7280
> 203900
>
> I hope to get freeBSD working to do a side-by-side comparison. On my
> linux machine it has worked okay but hasn't been reliable. The
> throttling of the audio input level has never really worked. ntpd
> ratchets it up to 100% and leaves it there, regardless of what I set
> the volume on my receiver ($50 ramsey WWV kit radio).
>
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