Hi, Martin:

I just checked mone at 7:58 PM and it says U.S>A. Time Updated.  Mine is a
REIZEN with 2 buttons and a stim.  Have had it about 3 months.  So far as
the battery, there is a table in the manual that estimates how long battery
will last based on how many times announces.  I have hourly announcments
disabled. See Table Below.


Requests per Day Battery Life

0 1.5 Years

5 1 Years

10 8 Months

15 6 Months

20 5 Months

25 4 Months


There is also a section on causes for the watch failing to adjust time but 
if you are placing it at night as usual and haven't put an electronic device 
too close to it or installed a metal band, the watch should still be 
updating.  Meanwhile, I enjoy having myne.

Regards:
Bob Martin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin G. McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 6:10 PM
Subject: Atomic Watch Is No Longer Radio Active.


> I have one of the Atomic Talking Watches that updates
> itself via WWVB at 60 KHZ or at least it did until about a week
> ago.
>
> It otherwise seems to be working. Is anybody else who
> has one of these watches having any trouble with it? The button
> that lets you set the alarm, etc, is supposed to say, "U S A updated"
> but now it always reports "U S A not updated."
>
> On September 4-6, NIST briefly conducted some tests of a
> new type of modulation system which may be used one day, but
> they appear to be back to normal now.
>
> The watch actually does its update procedure starting
> around 3 in the morning and retries at 4, 5 and 6 until it gets
> a good reading. It is trying each time, but no longer receiving a
> setting from Ft. Collins.
>
> What do these watches do when the battery starts to run
> down? I've had this one for about 18 months and have been pretty
> nice to it as in not dropped it or gotten it wet.
>
> It doesn't sound funny yet but it sure isn't getting
> WWVB any more.
>
> If nobody else is having trouble with their atomic
> watch, then this one has probably had a partial melt-down. If
> others are having trouble, then there may be something about the
> signal now that is confusing the receiver.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martin WB5AGZ