Pieter That is quite a surprise that a country is setting up a long wave system these days. They still have to raise the money but it seems like a semi-private arrangement. Even more interesting is they suggest 3 locations. Something to try to find in the VLF bands some day in the future. Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Apparently India plans to build two longwave transmitters for a national > time signal service: > http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/coming-huge-towers-to- > publicise-right-time/article23377284.ece > > No technical details such as frequency and modulation are given, nor > whether > the carrier will also serve as a reference frequency. > > They do mention involvement of the German EFR company, who operate three > transmitters between 129 and 139 kHz for remotely controlling equipment > and broadcasting time, using 200 baud FSK. One might speculate similar > signals will be used for the new India service. > > Regards, > Pieter-Tjerk (PA3FWM) > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
