[time-nuts] Time standards

Paul Galpin galpinp at absamail.co.za
Sat Dec 16 03:08:16 EST 2006


Can anyone help?

1. What standard time transmissions might I be able to pick up reliably here
in South Africa? We used to have one on 2500 kHz, but it seems to have gone,
SA Bureau of Standards doesn't seem to know what I m talking about when I
asked them. WWV comes in some times, and optimum frequency varies, so that's
not what I'm looking for. I can get time pips from the FM services, but that
will have been through an undefined analog-digital-analog satellite feed, so
the delay is whatever it might be that day!

2. I have been given a digital wall clock which was bought in Europe. It is
designed to work from European time signals, but the book (instruction
leaflet!) doesn't say which - MSF? The German one? who knows! If could I get
details of the frequencies and signals that these transmitters put out, I
could make a local TX to drive it. At the moment it loses 1 second a day.

Paul Galpin





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