[LEAPSECS] Longer horizon

[Richard B. Langley]

Found a recording of the 7 pips on You Tube as witnessed at Bush House  
(now vacated):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTnMLiOqNKk

And other You Tube leap second videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1scvSm3Em3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfhHPaZb8MI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyPZldmAAG8 (Interesting one.)

-- Richard

On 11-Jul-12, at 8:38 AM, Peter Vince wrote:


> Hi Richard,

>

>     Yes, BBC Radio 4 Long Wave on 198 KHz certainly did.  David

> Malone in Ireland grabbed the LF spectrum and sent a message to the

> list at 13:25 (British Summer Time) on the 1st of July - his

> spectrogram at

> http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/time/leap2012/spectrogram.png

> clearly shows the six short and seventh longer pips.  Speaking to my

> colleague in Broadcasting House who used to be their "Time Lord", they

> have a new system which is completely automatic, and designed to

> correctly handle leap-seconds - and it seems to have worked - yippee!

>

>     Peter

>

>

> On 11 July 2012 12:27, Richard B. Langley <lang at unb.ca> wrote:

>> Peter:

>> Did any BBC radio station transmit the 7-pip Greenwich Time Signal  

>> for the

>> leap second? I did check the iPlayer repeats from BBC Radios 1  

>> through 5 but

>> it appears that these stations, at least via iPlayer, didn't use  

>> it. Unlike

>> for the 2008 leap second when Radio 5 made a big deal about it.

>> -- Richard Langley

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