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lördag, juli 02, 2011

Radio Station WWV


NIST radio station WWV broadcasts time and frequency information 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to millions of listeners worldwide. WWV is located in Fort Collins, Colorado, about 100 kilometers north of Denver. The broadcast information includes time announcements, standard time intervals, standard frequencies, UT1 time corrections, a BCD time code, geophysical alerts, marine storm warnings, and Global Positioning System (GPS) status reports.


>> http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv.cfm
Det var efter denna station, en gammal bekant till mig,  som man för "hundra år sedan"  justerade fartygens kronometrar.

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