On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:42:03 +0100, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

In the loft/come shack I spotted a radio controlled clock I had bought
maybe a decade before - so I thought slap some batteries in and try it.

I think it was an Aldi/Lidl purchase, most likely Aldi....

It made several attempts to receive the time data, but consistently
failed downstairs. On moving it to a better reception position
upstairs, it again made several attempts, but must have got some
reception, because several times it at least showed seconds in the
display, then eventually got a full data set and displayed an 'S'. I'm
wondering if it might be trying to receive the German time signal,
hence the troubles syncing itself? MSF is usually easy to receive here.

There is no name on it, a reset hole in the rear, a very large LCD
digit display, display the temperature C or F, the moons phase,
day/month day. It has four buttons on the front - Set time, up, down
and a C/F button. It can be wall hung or a fold out metal bracket
allows it to stand on a desk.

It has a switch on the rear CET / UK. CET makes it one hour fast and 24
hour clock, UK makes it show UK time, but am/pm 12 hour. I think that
lack of UK with 24 hour format was why it got forgotten.

I wonder if anyone might recognise it.

Lidl and Aldi ones are always tuned to DCF77 in my experience.


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Graham.

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