DIY Amplifier for Atomic Radio Controlled watches that actually works & is VERY simple
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2018
- Here's an easy do it yourself amplifier for your atomic or radio controlled watches that increases their ability to successfully receive the time signal.
If, like me, you live at the edge of the range of the atomic towers or have problems getting a successful sync, this video might help you.
I tested it with my G-Shock watches but it works for Citizen, Seiko or any other atomic watch.
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Hi it works i live in Brisbane Australia put watch on bike and it turned in only trouble is i set it to Tokyo tower but it changed it to tokyo time do i set it to SYD will it still pick up Tokyo tower but not change the time here
Son of a.... Now I have to buy a bike for my watch collection!?!?
It works! I have three G-shocks and a Casio Pathfinder all of which synch with the atomic clock sporadically at best. The Pathfinder hadn’t synced properly since November of last year. Hung all 4 on the metal towel towel rack in my bathroom and for the first time ever, all 4 watches had synced perfectly. Good find, sir!
I did some research on this and found the antenna inside the multiband 6 Gshock watches is a ferrite rod antenna which runs across the watch from the 9 to 3 o’clock position. It can be quite directional in terms of signal reception, which is why Casio provides specific instructions on how to align your watch at night. If you don’t have a metal rod or want to try on it’s own, at night set your watch near a window and align the 12 o’clock side to the direction of the nearest multiband 6 station tower to you. I think the reason why Casio says this in the instructions is because this aligns the antenna at 90 degrees to the incoming signal which I believe is the best position for reception without any other aides. Therefore, I think the best possible signal reception would be with the metal rod in the same position. Try it out and let me know your findings!
It's not an amplifier so much as a better antenna coupling to the tiny internal antenna. The internal antennas are coils of wire wound on tiny ferrite bars. The appropriate antenna for the 60 kHz WWVB signal is a wire dipole antenna that is over a mile and a half long. The best practical indoor antenna is a loop of wire about 3 feet across with a capacitor wired in a gap in the loop that will resonate the loop at 60 kHz. (Do a web search for small mag loop antenna.) Then just set the watch beside it and it will lock easily, even much easier than using a pipe as an antenna. Basically, a larger antenna is a better antenna, and 2 antennas tuned to the same frequency couple to each other and share the strength of the signal received by the larger one with the smaller one. So get them close together and you're in business. I built a WWVB loop antenna in MI that was 3 feet in diameter (and in my basement) that received the WWVB signal in Colorado so clearly that I could display it as a sine wave on my oscilloscope.
I just go to bed with the watch strapped to me and use my body as the amplifier ...works every time 👍
I live in Malta Island so its very hard for us to have good reception from the German Atomic Tower, however i tried your method by using a 1.5 meter solid copper bar and KABOOM !! there goes my Citizen Eco Drive Blue Angels Collection piece.... I have no words enough to thank you. !!!!!
This is crazy, I actually put 4 of my atomic watches and clocks on a metal cabinet and get 100% sync rate. But when I put them in the windowsill (plastic/wood) which is actually CLOSER to the window, literally, the success rate drops to maybe 50%. I never put two and two together. Great video. Metal works.
Your method worked for my 5600 Bluetooth! I used my wife's old golf club, a long old wooden headed driver and placed it horizontal. I was only getting level one without, and tried it at 5pm and to my amazement it connected level 2 and 3 bouncing back and forth. Wow how amazing. At night it locked at level 3. I am in NE Minnesota and the Atomic is in Colorado. Thanks, much!
what about wearing it directly on your wrist? Shouldn't the human body also be a conductor? I was lying in my bed with the watch around my wrist, hand on my stomach and surprisingly it found L2-L3 very soon.
This tip absolutely worked for me! I live In Michigan hung my watch from the aluminum tube connected at the bottom of my window blinds. Raised the blinds half way up the window & the watched sync'd a few minutes after midnight!!! Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this tip!
You, sir, deserve a Nobel Prize, as far as I am concerned 👍 👌 🏆
Finally! Signal Received!
I use gw7900. I live in Indonesia so far away from japan and we know with my time zone (BKK) is not possible to activate my atomic timekeeping sync. So before I sleep, I set my watch home city to Tokyo (TYO) which is 2 hours ahead from my local time, then I set receiving radio signal to On/auto receiving and I hanged my watch on steel rod of my windows in my bed room. When i wake up in the morning and check my watch, Its incredible!, The sync indicator is appeared!! Its SUCCESSFULLY SYNC at
You have great original content, and you are one of the best watch tech presenters on RUclips. Keep it up!
At first I was skeptical that this could work, but as a ham radio operator, I figured that there must be an inductive coupling between the metal frame of the bike and the watch antenna. Whatever it is, I tried several times without using your technique and could not get the watch to synch. Then, but just attaching it to my camera tripod it synched up the on the first try. Great observation on your part!
Thank you for this video (even 5 years later). I have always struggled getting the time signal on my multi band 6 gshocks in my bedroom on the US west coast. I watched this video and decided to try hanging my watches on the metal handles of my dresser and viola, perfect syncing first time (12:04am) every night. Thank you! 🎉
This concept worked for my large "Atomix" Wall-clock.
My friend, I just wanna thank you for this very useful information, thanks, I’ve been trying to sync my citizen at8154 in Mexico City and I’ve never had luck, but after seeing this, I just left my watch in the frame of a walking machine and it works perfectly!!
Definitely worked for me too! Thank you for this video! My watch hadn't successfully synced since July... hung it from a metal closet rod last night and found three solid sync bars this morning.