A friend of mine living in SE lower Michigan recently bought a Geppetto GPS clock, and swears that it tends to lose satellite lock on cloudy days but does OK on sunny days.
He is admittedly using a very poorly-sited antenna, placed in a window because his house has aluminum siding. He reports that his Garmin handheld GPS has much less trouble acquiring and maintaining lock on cloudy days than does the Geppetto, but still tends to show higher levels of probable position error on cloudy days. I don't yet know if he takes the Garmin outside for these comparisons. Is this a real phenomenon, or is my friend just imagining things? Meanwhile I think I have finally persuaded him to install the antenna outside on the roof. Dana (K8YUM) _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
