Mills@udel.edu (02/28/90)
Folks, I thought you might like to know that tonight a fuzzball at Norwegian Telecommunications Administration began radiating atomic NTP time. Paal Spilling and crew have lashed a cesium clock to the thing and it is now happily chiming the atomic hour. Immediately the crew of NTP chimers sleepily polling the fuzzball, but importing time from the US, quickly snapped to attention and are now chiming Eurotime. Strangely enough, the Eurochimers are showing stable offsets relative to the Oslo fuzzy of between 30 and 60 ms, so Paal may have some detective work finding the assymetries. The network paths between Norway and the US are presently in awful shape, so the Oslo radiator may be the best timekeeper now in Europe. Note that, while atomic ticks the seconds, the seconds numbering is still imported to Norway from the US via NTP. Our pals with MSF receivers in England are invited to join the fray and help keep the Oslo tick on the right second. I am most interested to see (from the fuzzy logs) how reliable the seconds numbering can be maintained via the rambunctious line to the US. Dave