Radio Control Watch

juner | 21:35 Mon 26th Mar 2012 | How it Works

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My Husband who is blind has had a radio control talking watch and he has had it for over a year but this weekend it never updated the time until this morning. Does anyone know why this maybe.

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mandy22

does the watch have the date on it?? just wondered if its something to do with this year being a leap year?? not of any help to you but just a thought for you to consider!

sunny-dave

I've got a couple of radio controlled clocks - they only try to update a couple of times each day and if they happen not to get a clear signal at that moment then it can be 12/24 hours before they try again.

I presume your husband's watch just failed to pick up a signal overnight on saturday/sunday and so was 'wrong' until it got the update overnight sunday/monday.

alexanderd

sunny-dave is right, this has happened to me before. Was it foggy in your area overnight by any chance as that can affect the signal?

juner

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Hadn't thought about that Mandy, it is a possibility I suppose. I have two other small clocks that changed correctly along with this computer. But you may have something there.

mandy22

just read the other answers - they are probably right lol

juner

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Thanks everyone at least I know that the possibility of the watch not updating could happen.

ChuckFickens

As there is an advertised outage of the MSF radio time signal at the moment (which wasn't on the site two days ago) I'd guess that the transmitter has been having a problem .

http://www.npl.co.uk/...-services/msf-outages

(I checked the site on Sunday as two of my fathers radio clocks wouldn't update either)

gingejbee

I have several radio-controlled watches and they all updated. Some watches need to have their receivers pointing towards the transmitter- that's Cumbria for those using the UK transmitter and middle-Germany for the European transmitter.
Also, if the watch is battery-powered (as opposed to solar-powered) perhaps the battery needs changing, because low battery-level means it won't be able to receive the signal.

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