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I bought a cheap Tecsun PL-660 portable receiver purely to get WWV time
ticks free from any latency due to digital processing. However, for
celestial navigation that's overkill. It should be entirely adequate to
sync your watch aurally to WWV or USNO via phone. Visually, you can use
the clocks displayed on USNO web site.

My Tecsun did not come with an outdoor antenna, but I have never needed
anything but the whip antenna to hear WWV indoors. I'm not saying
there's a good signal any time, any day. Sometimes the propagation is
poor on all frequencies. But it's better now that we're out of the
bottom of the 11-year solar cycle. I even tried 20 MHz just now and
found a weak but usable signal.

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Paul Hirose
sofajpl.com

   

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