RE: Time reference

From: Roger Rice (rrice2@mciworld.com)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 16:27:19 PDT

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    You might try these links:
    
    http://www.nefas.org/
    
    http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Mike Waterman [mailto:Mike.Waterman@marconi.com]
    Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 11:03 AM
    To: Seesat Exploder (E-mail)
    Subject: Time reference
    
    
    Following on the posting from Cees Bassa on timing problems, and
    the posting from Tom Troszak on the US phone number:
    
    the phone number may may accessible from Europe, but a call may go via
    a satellite, which would mean a few tenths of a second delay.
    
    Safer to either use a more local phone number (I suspect the UK speaking
     clock is not accessible outside UK), or radio.
    
    Near the UK the BBC long wave 198 Kcs gives a time signal at most hours,
    and the BBC World service gives time signal at most hours on short wave
    to all the world, and medium wave in selected places: details from
         http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/schedules/frequencies/index.shtml
    
    Also on short wave at 10Mcs there are pips each second (with a long pip
    on the minute) from 10 to 20 minutes past each hour & from 40 to 50
    minutes: this I think comes from Moscow. There may still be similar
    signals on 5 & 20Mcs, I have not tried recently.
    
    Other shortwave frequencies worth a try are:
           2.5 3.330  7.335 14.670  15.0 MHz.
    
    There may be medium wave time signals near you, try listening after dark
    on the hour.
    
    There is also an ultra-long wave signal from Germany, I cant find its
    frequency right now, perhaps 16Kcs or 40Kcs.
    
    Mike Waterman      mike.waterman@marconi.com
    Site Yateley = COSPAR 2115 =  51.3286N  0.7950W  75m.
    
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