NIST Helps Beam Time to TV Viewers in the Middle East (ThomasNet)
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2008-01-08 14:24
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Thanks to time signal generator built by NIST and installed at satellite uplink facility in 6th of October City, Egypt, millions of satellite TV and radio users in North Africa and Middle East can see and hear precise time of day. About the size of a briefcase, generator produces standard time code and audible seconds pulse, and top-of-the-minute voice announcement in Arabic. Time code includes ...