"A man with two clocks..."
You know the saying, a man with a watch knows the time but a man with two watches has no clue. Well, my GPS clock plus 10MHz source has decided it no longer wants to be a clock. It was a nice idea, came as a kit of parts from three sources and worked well up to a point. But the GPS module always seemed a little deaf. I had it connected to one of those little magnetic pucks but it struggled, often loosing all sight of any satellites. I tried it on an external antenna (sat on the windowsill) and on the puck placed outside with no difference. With a splitter inline a Leo Bodnar unit was happy so I had to assume the antenna was fine. Anyway, it has spent all day with no satellites in view whereas the QRL Labs clock is fine as is the NPT server. So it has been switched off and assigned to the 'box of abandoned projects' where it resides, alone. And so I have one clock and I thus know the time!
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