At 02:21 PM 17/02/2008, Gordon Prichard wrote: >Reception from the Hawiian and North American stations is very poor in >Australia and New Zealand. Does anyone know of closer or more powerful >stations? > Gordon gordon, there aren't any suitable. When VNG became unusable here in Adelaide, I switched back to using the talking clock(1194). However several years ago Telstra contracted out that service and its not reliable to the .2 second level required for satellite tracking, or for occultation or Seismometer timing. I currently synch my computer to the atomic clocks in Australia and NZ using the software package synch-it, There are a several other free packages around. One other is called dimension 4. I just stop my stopwatch on the minute as shown on the Synchit display. When I was using Windows 98SE I had to manuallly resynch it because the it lost time. However windows XP doesn't have that problem. I will take this opportunity to ask the analysts on this list if my timing errors have increased in the last 2 years because of my use of this technique. Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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