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On 4 Jan 2002 01:32:39 -0800, etsteve@yahoo.com (Steve Sousa) wrote:

>rfwilson@intergate.nospam.bc.ca (Bob Wilson) wrote in message news:<u37dbqqa15uu27@corp.supernews.com>...
>
>> You obviously miss the point. Show me where you can go to the clock 
>> department in ANY North American department store, or jewelery store (as you 
>> can in Europe) and choose amongst many different models and brands of "radio 
>> clocks". The answer is you cannot, because these things basically do not 
>> exist here. In Europe, they have been in common use for 10 years. Most of my 
>> friends in Germany have 2 or 3 of these things at home.
>
>Mr. Wilson:
>
>*Europe* is not composed of Germany and the United Kingdom.
>As far as i know those are the only countries were such devices are
>common, because they are the only ones with time-code radio
>transmiters.
>With simple receivers, Dcf77 can probably be usefull up to the
>France/Spain border. My thoughts only, from europe...  :-)
>

Mr Sousa:

You obviously don't know much about this.

Use of both watches, alarm clocks and wall clocks is quite common here
in Norway, I myself have 2 of them.

The coverage of DCF77 is specified to 2000km from Mainflingen, near
Frankfurt in Germany.

That means it covers most , if not all of Europe.
Narvik, Norway is 2100km.
Reykjavik, Iceland is 2300km
Lisabon, Portugal is 2000km
Crete is 2100km
Moscow is 2300km

Another site claims a coverage of 1500km to 2500km, and the 1500km
circle is plotted on a map there:

http://www.eurisco.com/jack/dcf77/emitter-e.html

Tom
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