"geoff" wrote in message
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Well , I have one which I got in Germany years ago, which uses the
Frankfurt time signal, which must be at least 500 miles away. It works
fine and I have no problem with the signal - you must be in some sort
of
faraday cage

Everything is ok and working fine now. I checked at around 7pm last
night and it had updated itself to the correct time, so it must have
been due to the maintenance work on the transmitter. As previously
mentioned, the maintenance work is scheduled to complete on the 20th Oct
so there will probably be more downtime until them. Thanks for all the
replies.