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by bux93 5 days ago
>damned if I could find one with a red seven-segment display that I liked (maybe someone else’s search kung-fu is better than mine?).

The secret to finding an inexpensive radio-controlled clock/alarm/watch of your liking it to be German. They LOVE their Funk-Uhren! Sadly they typically only support Germany's DCF77 signal. You can also trivially find DCF77 receivers as components to use in a project.
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martijnvds 5 days ago
Despite being a German signal, DCF77 can be received all over Europe, except the northernmost parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland and for some reason, Crete.

There's a map here: https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/ptb/fachabteilungen/abt4/fb-44/ag-...

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MrGilbert 5 days ago
They are quite handy, though. Also, there is a (commercial, proprietary) weather protocol encoded on top. However, since the end of june, there are technical issues and no forecast is being transmitted. [1]

[1]: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Meteotime-Weather-stations-supp...

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