Abstract: To receive signals of a satellite navigation system that have been band-spread with a PN (Pseudo-Noise) sequence, a receiver is provided in which signal travel times are determined for deriving the distance from satellites. Further included in the receiver is a time-shift control loop, that is, a so-called Delay-Locked Loop (DLL) for performing a tracking synchronization of a locally-generated carrier-frequency signal and cycle and a PN code that is identical to the PN code transmitted from the satellite, the loop having two correlators, of which the one is supplied with a PN sequence that precedes the received PN sequence by one cycle time, or a fraction thereof, and the other is supplied with a PN sequence that follows the PN sequence symmetrically, and the subtracted results are used as a difference cross-correlation function for controlling the voltage-controlled oscillator.