crystal@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Richard Brittain) (06/28/91)
Hello world, I'm researching methods of maintaining an accurate long term time base on PCs used for data collection in the field. The most promising prospect seems to be in one of these WWV receivers on a card which lock into the time code and then make this available to the PC. The one I'm looking at is tuned to the 10Mhz broadcast and comes with TSR software to grab the time and update it periodically. My question is - does anyone have any experience with these cards, and if so where. Our experiments will be running in Alaska and northern Manitoba (Churchill) and the manufacturer it seems really only intended them for use in the continental US - but we were thinking of trying it anyway. Any other suggestions for long term time solutions are also welcome. I know that satellite receivers can be had to do the job, but they are _much_ more expensive than this. A dial-up program is a possibility as we may have phone lines to the sites, but that isn't guaranteed. Thanks, Richard Brittain richard@einstein.dartmouth.edu