lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (10/26/83)
I posted a longer version of this message to the ARPA IBM-PC digest, but just for the record: My own experiences with a cheap ($100) WWVB receiver, using an indoor antenna in West Los Angeles, and with a simple interface to a micro, do not agree with the results reported by ISI. I had no significant problems getting it to work reliably. --Lauren--
lauren%RAND-UNIX@vortex.UUCP (10/28/83)
Well, my own experiences with WWVB have not included such problems. Some years ago, I tested one of the $100 receivers (and I can dig up the name if anyone really needs it) via interfacing it to a noisy 8080/Z80 system in West L.A. An indoor antenna was used, and while it took a few minutes of moving it around to find the best spot, after that it worked fine and the data was stable. I haven't worked with such units since then, mainly since (as you pointed out) they are not really all *that* accurate by themselves (given internal delays) and true WWV accuracy was not really required for most applications. --Lauren--