On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:42:04 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:

On 2012\02\08 09:50, Bruce wrote:
Basil wrote:
On 2012\02\07 22:13, Bruce wrote:
Basil wrote:

On 2012\02\07 19:41, Star Fury wrote:

I wonder what the source of the authoritative time for the UK Railway
actually is, now?

At least one railway company gave its staff Eurochron radio controlled
watches which got their signal from Mainflingen, Germany.


Surely from the atomic clocks at Anthorn, Cumbria?

I don't think Eurochron (Junghans) ever produced a watch which received
the British time signal, BICBW.

They make at least one wall clock (364/7003.00) which uses DCF and MSF
but Google chucks up some remnants of currently unreachable forum
posts suggesting that some of their wris****ches already had bother
with confusion between German and US transmitters (presumably where
neither had an effectively dominant signal) so MSF might have made
things even worse.

The Mainflingen signal is easily
receivable in most if not all of England (as opposed to Scotland).


Thanks, a personal email also confirmed that the German signal has a
range in excess of 2000 km. Remarkable.

It varies according to the weather and time of day.
http://ftp.casio.co.jp/pub/world_man.../en/qw5061.pdf contains a map
showing the reception range of Casio watches, although I couldn't get my
Casio to receive the Mainflingen signal in Exeter. I imagine Eurochron
watches have a similar range (for the Mainflingen signal only).