Re: [Swprograms] BBC on Public Radio

[Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Of course, a web audio stream makes no sense when it comes to time
signals due to the caching that is done before the stream is served.

However, all BBCWS transmitters -- whether shortwave or via satellite
radio or via FM -- at minimum are one "round trip" from planet Earth,
because the shortwave relays are fed this way.  Perhaps the UK
facilities are as well.

I'll have to listen to both a shortwave BBCWS feed and a local FM
BBCWS feed some morning, but there is no reason that both signals
aren't fed via one round trip up & down.  However, I don't know how
traffic is managed in detail, so that's an assumption on my part.

That begs the question if any satellite-fed shortwave signal that
carries time pips is "off" by that round trip.  This would include DW,
RNW, CRI, and others.

Locally, my public radio station inserts an automated station ID
during the 5-pip countdown but does not block out the pips.  Listen
online at http://www.wdiyfm.org/listen/.  Sometimes the automation is
slightly off-sync, meaning we hear the pips in all their glory...

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA  USA

On 2/2/06, Paul David <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have had occasion recently to listen to some public radio stations
> carrying BBC WS programming, and I note that whenever they join the BBC they
> do so in time only for the last tone of the Time Signal, not the whole Time
> Signal.  Given the number of satellite hops which would obviously be
> involved before the BBC signal reaches the studios of these stations, there
> would obviously seem little point in them carrying the Time Signal at all,
> as it obviously cannot be considered to the precise moment of the top of the
> hour.

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