[Elecraft] Atomic Clocks and Aluminum Siding

[John R. Lonigro]

A GPS receiver inside an aluminum-sided house may also have some 
trouble. Mine, which has no external antenna, has trouble picking up 
satellites in my (brick-sided) house and in my (metal-sided) car, other 
than on the dashboard near the windshield. If I ever get lost in my 
basement, the GPS receiver won't help (hi). My cell phone has much 
better coverage, but I'd need a magnifying glass to read the time from 
that display.

John AA0VE

>
> At 12:34 AM 1/9/2005, Robert Rennard wrote:
>
>> Why not just use a cheap GPS receiver instead of a WWVB receiver. It 
>> should
>> work anywhere in the world, and give time keeping accuracy better than 1
>> microsecond relative to UTC.
>