From: "Larry Cochrane" <cochrane@..............> Subject: Re: SDR Time Displays Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:47:54 -0700
Steve,
It looks like you are running an old version of WinSDR. Please upgrade to
the current version. I've made some changes to the time display since
version 2.0.1.
-Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Hansen" <shansen@........>
To: <winsdr@..............>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 4:11 PM
Subject: SDR Time Displays
> Larry,
>
> I've got what may or may not be a stupid question on WinSDR 2.01 which I
> have set up with your A/D board and am just really starting to use with my
> solar SID receivers.
>
> I'm currently recording 2 channels on local time mode (haven't gotten the
> GPS hooked up yet and for SID work the PCs clock seems pretty acceptable)
> with 720 min/line. The PC is set to UTC.
>
> When I start to record the start time appears to the left of the trace by
> the vertical marker. As the trace continues the present time is displayed
at
> the bottom of the recording window of the open channel. This, of course,
> agrees with the PC's time as displayed at the lower right of my desktop.
> Now, when I move the cursor to any point along the trace, a time
indication
> shows up at the bottom right of the SDR window. If the cursor is placed at
> the start of the trace, the indicated time agrees with the start time of
the
> trace.
>
> From this, the only thing I have to do to analyze the SID plots (since no
> event files are produced, I work right from the data files) is stick the
> cursor on the start/max and ends of the SID traces and note the
> corresponding times. Really convenient.
>
> What seems to be the case however is, while there is complete agreement
> between the trace start times and the cursor, as the cursor is moved along
> to the right, a discrepancy grows to a max of about 1 hour. The same
happens
> in the replay mode.
>
> So, is this feature (the cursor time indication) being used correctly by
me
> and, if that's the case, any idea what's wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Hansen
>
> P.S. My Bell Jar web page at www.tiac.net/users/shansen/belljar is no
longer
> in existance. Tiac removed all of their personal pages and transferred
their
> non-commercial subscribers. I am now setting up shop at www.belljar.net .
.