On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:39:34 +0000, Chris Hogg wrote:

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:16:55 +0000, Scott
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:50:26 +0000, Martin Brown
wrote:

On 30/11/2018 16:16, Scott wrote:
There is a radio controlled clock at my former workplace. As I
installed it, I am still getting the blame that it is not working.

LCD ones should last a year or so on a single battery. In what way is it
not working ? Mine generally fade out gradually but still show the time.

Per my other post, it is a mechanical display (with hands). What
happens is that it loses the time signal but keeps going showing
totally the wrong time.

Is the clock in the best place? I find that radio clocks receiving
from Anthorne are quite sensitive to their location, due to poor
reception through thick concrete walls, steel sheeting etc. Moving
them around from room to room or even within a room can make a big
difference. Several of the radio clocks I've had don't reset
themselves until midnight, even though the reset button is pressed to
activate the 'signal search' function, although a German radio clock
from Lidl and receiving from Frankfurt, does reset itself fairly
quickly.

It's not in the ideal place, but it is in the only place given the
layout of the open plan office. It is on an outer wall. We probably
do have concrete construction and there is a lot of electro-magnetic
interference from all the computers. It does not help that we are a
long distance from Anthorn and the power is only 17kW. It does
generally correct itself through the night, I assume because of
improved propagation.

The clocks do work most of the time and I suspect become less reliable
as the battery loses power. Maybe we should have spent more than £10
and not gone to Argos!