I wrote:
As an aside, we (the royal we, as in folks in the Fedora community who maintain the website) should change the verification step to recommend gpgv rather than the gpg command. It would require making the fedora.gpg a de-armored file, but then it the instructions would be simpler.
I made that suggestion in patch form to the websites team:
https://pagure.io/fedora-web/websites/pull-request/189