[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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