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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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f099d25a | 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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