[time-nuts] clock-block any need ?

John Ackermann N8UR jra at febo.com
Thu Dec 27 14:13:27 UTC 2012


The Clock-Block is a clock generator that is useful if you want to replace the computer's onboard crystal clock with an external high-stability source.  For example, you can configure it to take a 10 MHz input from a GPSDO and create a 14.318182 MHz output to replace the crystal in a PC that uses that frequency.  The external clock improves the NTP system's short term stability because the typical PC crystal is quite temperature sensitive and overall just isn't very good.

You do not need to use something like the Clock-Block to build a very good NTP server, but if you want to build the *ultimate* server it is part of the mix.

John

On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Dan Nica <timi at crystal.rdstm.ro> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> I want to setup a time servere so I saw in many configuration that a clock-block
> was used, do I need it too ? what are the benefits ?
> 
> thanks,
> Dan
> 
> 
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