[time-nuts] Advice on good reception for radio clocks
Brooke Clarke
brooke at pacific.net
Wed Jun 27 14:09:32 UTC 2012
Hi Tony:
The loopstick antenna has a pattern with a couple of nulls so the orientation is important.
Also during the daytime there's probably too much noise to receive a good signal so best to listen around local midnight.
Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html
Tony Finch wrote:
> Are there any basic steps I should take to improve the reception quality
> of a radio clock? I have a cheap and cheerful DCF77 receiver for
> connecting to some GPIO pins, but its PPS output is basically noise with
> maybe a one-second period. Perhaps it's just cheap and nasty.
>
> I am in Cambridge.
>
> Tony (armchair time nut).
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