After you have built chu, you might wish to test it. The file testsignal.gz is supplied for this purpose. This file is not an actual recording of CHU, but rather a synthesized signal created for the purpose of testing this software. Thus it has perfect timing, that could not be reproduced with a real sound card. Unzip the testsignal file with: gzip -d testsignal.gz Then run: chu -l:10 testsignal The -l switch is used so you don't in-advertantly set your clock back to December 25, 1993, which is the time encoded in the test signal. It will print out lots of information, but the last few lines should look like this: Computing with 10 tone samples offset = -28.137367 sound card error = 0.000 ppm max_variance = 0.000002 mean_variance = 0.000000 WARNING: Adjustment exceeds maximum allowed: 161436151.862633 The value of offset, and number in the last line is dependant on when you run the program. The rest of these lines should match though. The sound card error should be zero, as well as the mean variance.