On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:26:21 +0000, cynic wrote
(in article
):

Has anyone any knowledge of the UK radio time signal system? My son
bought me a watch last year which updates from the radio time signal.
It used to have an antenna symbol in the display to show it was
receiving. For some time now the symbol has been missing and the time
is slightly adrift by a few seconds when compared with other
standards.
As the rest of the functions seem ok has there been a change in the
transmitter?

I've had two of these watches and with both of them there has been a setting
which will stop the watch receiving time signals (for use if you travel out
of range of a transmitter). Is it possible that you have inadvertently done
this with your watch?

These watches don't receive the timing signal continuously by the way. To
conserve the battery they go into a 'receive mode' once every 24 hours. The
antenna symbol indicates whether the last attempt was successful or not.

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Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire