At 12:24 PM 1/14/2009 , Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message <[email protected]>, Brooke Clarke writes: > >>My first problem is to hook the front end up to a couple of batteries >>and a LED to find a good place for the antenna. > >Be aware that the AGC has a very long timeconstant, you should leave >it powered up in one place for at least a couple of minute before >passing judgement.
Yep. I've noticed that mine can take several minutes from power up to pulses, even when the antenna is located in a known good spot. Kind of a shame they didn't use the unused bits in the WWVB stream for some kind of checksum or error correcting code. -- newell N5TNL _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
