Steve Nosko wrote:

Where are you? I'm in Illinois and just got one of the clocks. I know it
helps you not not a bit for me to say mine sync'ed up quickly, but everybody
says that kinda' stuff (:-)..

Don't think there is anything to buy... Make is the only way.

The instructions for mine say that it only listens at certain times and can
take a few _DAYS_ to sync up. That seems strange to me...oh well.

Ivan's passive loop is a VERY good idea - easy.

I don't think cinder block walls will matter.

Search for "lowfer". I wanted to actually hear WWVB and do a little SWLing
for NDBs (300-500KHz) w/ my new IC 706 and did some snooping. A good loop
takes a little bit of work.

All you will hear is nothing, unless your detector and audio amp goes
down to DC. The modulation rate is one bit per second, by reducing the
carrier level by 10 dB. There is no audio modulation, because the signal
is also a frequency standard. The only way you would hear it would be to
mix a signal to beat against WWVB to produce a heterodyne in the radio's
pass band.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida