"James Brown" wrote in message
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In message , Martin Rowley
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"James Brown" wrote in message
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Sorry to be OT, but I just wondered whether there were others who were
now experiencing problems since the relocation of the MSF transmitter
up north to Anthorn from Rugby. I can get sync with one clock in one
room (but not the room I need it!), but with a home made one, it seems
to be less sensitive and its a no go now.

... I have a unit (Oregon Scientific) right in front of me, and to be
honest I hadn't noticed until your email that it is not (currently)
picking up a sync. signal - I had heard vaguely that the tx had moved
but didn't realise that the service area would change so dramatically.

Martin.


Thanks for that Martin - the attitude of the powers that be seems to be
dismissive of problems down south - great pity!

But it makes a change for the geographical bias to be that way round ;-)

My LaCrosse w/s has a built-in MSF and it seems still to be in sync, though
(as before) not 24/7. I have some interest in this, because in the early
eighties (getting even further OT, but, hey, it's nearly the weekend) I
designed a single-chip MSF decoder which drove an alphanumeric LCD, quite a
novelty back then, and was the first of its kind (I was even invited to the
NPL to talk about it). I'm afraid that there are so many other accurate
time sources available now (GPS for one, internet timeservers for another)
that MSF is probably only of domestic / novelty interest, and few of any
influence will complain if it's not as reliably received as it used to be.

Steve P