Your right, msf has gone to anthorn which is north of the lake district, fairly close to me so I get a really good signal, msf is sposed to cover europe so you should be able to get it, but with it being vlf tends to be affected by all kinds of things.
I have a dcf receiver but havent got eound to writing the code to decode it yet, the good thing about dcf is that unlike msf they dont turn it off for maintenance.
I have built a few odd ball clocks using nixies, dekatrons and other junk.