[ntp:questions] DCF77 support in the Windows NTP port?

David Lord snews at lordynet.org
Mon Jan 24 10:41:33 UTC 2011


David J Taylor wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Is there simple DCF77 support in the Windows NTP port?  This would be 
> for the simple receiver described here:
> 
>  http://www.rrs-web.net/in3her/dcf77_32.html
> 
> A friend has one of these devices and is interested in syncing multiple 
> PCs.  I only see manufacturer-specific drivers (types 38, 39 and 44) and 
> I'm unsure whether the hardware above is similar to one of these types, 
> and whether those types are in the Windows build (or how to find that 
> out for myself).  Perhaps type 44 is the closest and is fairly generic 
> for a serial-line presentation of the DCF77 data?
> 

It looks very much same as a Conrad module.

On NetBSD I use radioclkd2 with the shm driver.

 From here DCF77 was not very reliable and faded. I replaced
xtal and aerial with 60kHz versions.


David




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