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Dylan16807yesterday at 11:09 AM2 repliesview on HN

> if there's enough sky visibility

Which is a thing we shouldn't be requiring here. Picking up a single satellite without any position data is enough to drive a clock.


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seba_dos1yesterday at 11:32 AM

You need enough sky visibility to discern signal from a single satellite from the background noise without having accurate time and recent enough almanac already.

conorclearyyesterday at 11:25 AM

That 'three words' grid-hex system seems a lot cheaper and doesn't rely on time-space constraints in this light