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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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