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Re: BBC: 100th anniversary of the Greenwich Time Signal - the 'pips'
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2024 Feb 17, 23:54 +0000
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2024 Feb 17, 23:54 +0000
As I understand it both DAB and FM with RDS both transmit a digital time signal with sub second accuracy. My car RDS radio sets the cars clock, and my DAB radio in my kitchen has a clock that agrees with my kitchen clock synchronized to the MSF time signal at Atherton, Cumbria. So we don't really need pips so much. For navigation none of these work very far offshore.
Bill
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, 19:48 NavList Community, <NavList@fer3.com> wrote:
BBC: 100th anniversary of the Greenwich Time Signal - the 'pips'
From: Paul Saffo
Date: 2024 Feb 15, 11:22 -0800Greenwich Time Signal - the 'pips'
5 February 1924It’s been heard on the hour on BBC radio since 1924, six short electronically generated 'pips' to indicate the precise time of the day, and it's still going strong 100 years on.
Invented by the Astronomer Royal Sir Frank Watson Dyson, and the Director General of the BBC John Reith, the Greenwich Time Signal (GTS) heard on radio is now a much loved institution.(snip)
