I'm glad to know that what I have been seeing is reasonable. I have had difficulty syncing to WWVB with embedded receivers before, so perhaps I will get a better signal from the top floor of my house. Here on ground level I never see it lock.
Dave Witten Scott Newell wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
