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Parade du Grotesque 💀 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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I am a lot luckier than you guys, since I am in Europe, and probably relatively close to the DCF 77 Mainflingen radio station.

I also have a Waveceptor and Titanium ProTrek, and I just leave them under a window during the night, they get synchronized every time!

Bonus: since they are both solar powered, they get charged when I am wearing the GulfMaster!
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Gonzalo Nemmi :runbsd: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @bc80eaf5 yup. I figured that if you didn't get the signal from the German antenna, you may very well still covered by the UK one .. so it's either you sync from one or the other .. but you sync like a champ!! 😎 

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Parade du Grotesque 💀 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
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Why not both?  😂 

I mean the watches are not talking, they just tell me they got time sync!

This being said, i have been able to get sync in the USA, in New York of all places, and that's pretty far away from the US time station!

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Gonzalo Nemmi :runbsd: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @bc80eaf5 wow .. I don't even know how that happened!
New York is really far away from the two nearest antennas (Forth Collins on the west and the UK one on the east)! That's pretty amazing actually!

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Parade du Grotesque 💀 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @3aa006c3 

It's not that surprising, since the radio at Fort Collins has been  designed to broadcast a time signal over most of the US, Canada and Mexico.

These guys have several radio masts that are over 100m high.

This is a part of public infrastructure that is truly fascinating - how to give everyone over a continent the exact same time.

And Casio was able to miniaturize this and put it inside a watch. And THEN they over-engineer that watch to resist everything!

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Gonzalo Nemmi :runbsd: | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @bc80eaf5 and if that isn't and amazing feat .. then I don't know what is ... #Casio did everything right with their #GShock !!

I'm so glad that I found I was not alone on this one and that so many of us are on the same boat and appreciate the same qualities on mass produced item!. 

And most of all: that we didn't gave in and chose our privacy above all else! 

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