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Old 25th Oct 2011, 10:42
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baswell
 
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We used to use a service called VNG transmitted out of Lyndhurst in Victoria, it was similair to the WWV that the yanks have on HF, information as in the link http://tufi.alphalink.com.au/time/nsc_vng_leaflet.pdf
Thanks for that, shame they shut it down. A victim of the Australian government's "user pays and if there is no practical way to recover the money we'll just shut it down" mentality. Sigh.

I never cared too much for watches, but it was nice knowing my inexpensive wall or alarm clock was always telling the right time when I lived in Europe.

GPS is a great time source, but nobody makes consumer models, probably because it doesn't work indoors and isn't quite as cheap. The DCF77 signal, on the other hand, can be picked up down in a basement in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.
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