What's happened to the atomic clock sync?

[Ranger 6]

I have a very cheap waveceptor which I love because of it's sync to the atomic clock to keep time.

One of these:


It's lost the radio link to whatever source it uses (red circle mid-left) - does anyone know what's happened?

I've RTFM'ed it to death -reset the time and location, then tried to connect and even left it on the windowsill for a couple of days - nothing.

[Ranger 6]

Bump for the evening crowd

[anonymous-user]

I have an atomic syncing watch and its still picking up a signal. Potentially suggesting an error with the watch rather than the clock signal.

[bigandclever]

Info on the source can be found here .. https://www.npl.co.uk/msf-signal

There were a lot of scheduled outages in April for maintenance but, yeah, it’s the watch not the clock that isn’t working

[Ranger 6]

Two of them? at the same time?

I got one for my son at the same time - the famous Watch Hut sale £9 each

[minimalist]

I see to recall reading that failure to connect is quite common. I have a fairly new G-Shock with some Bluetooth features. It takes network time from my phone which seems to work very well. Added benefit is my work PC and watch are perfectly synced without any manual adjustment.

[CLX]

I had this issue once. The watch had somehow defaulted to original settings, so was trying to find the atomic signal for a different country, rather than the local one.

[trevalvole]

I've found that my decades-old alarm clock does not pick up the time signal if it is near a dimmer-controlled LED light, so perhaps the signal is being blocked by some electro-magnetic interference?

[Ranger 6]

CLX said:

I had this issue once. The watch had somehow defaulted to original settings, so was trying to find the atomic signal for a different country, rather than the local one.

I tried that - country setting is correct

[trickywoo]

My G- Shock updated as normal last night.