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Living in a country where Multiband 6 doesn't work

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Is there any way around it? Is it possible to use a radio transmitter or something like this? Audio equipment Technology Electronic device Electronics Fm transmitter
 
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Multi-Band is nice over a long period, but really how long does it take to sync your watch to time.gov online, a few seconds? You'll be lucky if your watch is off by about 6 seconds a month if you only did it once a month. Do it once a week and you can almost guarantee, 1-2 seconds deviation, do you really need better accuracy then that? Ok, this is a watch forum.......what am I saying?!?!............we're all nuts, and suffering from OCD! ;-)
 
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IMO MB6 is just a bonus feature. You should try wearing automatics for a few months. You'll definitely feel that atomic timekeeping is accuracy overkill after that.

Unless your job requires you to have timekeeping that is that accurate, then I think you would be relying on more specialised equipment for that.

If you REALLY want to use MB6... yeah there are a handful of apps for manual syncing.
 
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Casio has now introduced GPS. A GPS G-Shock would eliminate the problem of a bad signal. I can tell you from my experience that I live in a bad area where I don't get a good signal and it's a pain having to manually synch my watch every night. My Rangeman usually gets the atomic signal 99% of the time when I do a manual synch to it. But for the last 3 days, my Rangeman was unable to get the signal by a manual synch. If it had GPS, it would've picked up the signal without any problem. GPS synching is more reliable.
 
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Actually I would hope that some company soon makes a radio transmitter that is able to recreate the signal at very low levels, just enough for home use.

Having said that, I would assume broadcasting on the time signal frequency is prohibited, unless there is some sort of exception for broadcasting at extremely low power levels.
 
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I have to agree, I bought my 12 year old a Pro Trek which he wears every day and we have a standing joke, I ask him the time and we both look at our watches his and my Rangeman and.... they are exactly the same every single time down to the second yet he still insists his is the most accurate.

I did have a habit of running my autowinders 5 minutes fast, that way I'd always arrive early for appointments, now since wearing the Rangeman, I just arrive on time.
 
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Now we all may retire in Hawaii.

One more thing, the linked site does not mention how the unit itself receives the time signal. According to the description, it seems that the unit is used for syncing commercially used wall clocks. So my worry is that this unit may have to be set manually after all and that the intended useful advantage is that it syncs all other surrounding clocks to that 'reference' time.
 
#30 ·
Haha, yup, retire here and never wonder if your watch synced, because the answer is "no". :-d

I skimmed the instructions for the C-MAX TSG100 and it seems like it's meant to receive the atomic signal and broadcast it at set intervals. Although I've never gotten a G-Shock to sync here (even with that Citizen radio wave thingie), a clock on my son's desk would annoyingly sync once a week - I knew when it synced because it would be displaying Pacific time, since Hawaii time was not an option. So, something larger than a watch, which has room for a bigger antenna, might sync more reliably in places where a watch won't sync.

Now the problem is finding a price and someone who actually sells the C-MAC unit, I couldn't find any through a casual search.
 
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Wow. Brilliant again!

Does that app have a setting where it automatically turn on signal transmission at night?

Also I wonder if in such case it would be safe to leave the watch next to the phone all night, every night (for fear of magnetism).

How close does the watch need to be to the phone for the sync to succeed anyway?
 
#38 ·
Wow. Brilliant again!

Does that app have a setting where it automatically turn on signal transmission at night?
No.

Also I wonder if in such case it would be safe to leave the watch next to the phone all night, every night (for fear of magnetism).
N/A

How close does the watch need to be to the phone for the sync to succeed anyway?
About as close as shown in the video.

It will synch multiple watches at one time, but they all need to be close to the phone.

HTH
 
#49 ·
I recommend time.is all you will ever need (besides access to the inet of course).



cheers
 
#52 ·
Again: https://time.is

Just open the site, set a bookmark and you will always have the correct time anywhere in the world, a stable internet connection presupposed.

cheers
 
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I don't have a 5610, so I don't know. It exists on the solar/atomic Gs on which I've tried it.

If you can't get to the test screen, just set the home city to TYO and run the JJY Emulator.
 
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