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In article <e726e217.0201040132.64d5f448@posting.google.com>, 
etsteve@yahoo.com says...
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>rfwilson@intergate.nospam.bc.ca (Bob Wilson) wrote in message 
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>> 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
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>> can in Europe) and choose amongst many different models and brands of 
"radio
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>> 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
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>> friends in Germany have 2 or 3 of these things at home.
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>Mr. Wilson:
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>*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...  :-)

The transmitters are there, but they are *extremely* low frequency <100KHz, 
so their signal travels great distances. Further, it doesn't stop at (for 
example) Germany's borders. The German transmitter is in the north of the 
country, and I can personally verify that these clocks receive it perfectly 
well in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and France. This accounts for 
a substantial part of Europe.

Bob.