Incorrect Time Signals

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 51, 1 July 1932, Page 27

Incorrect Time Signals

AMERICAN broadcasting stations have received a sharp warning from the Federal Radio Commission not to transmit time signals received by telegraph wire even when announced as originating in the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington. The Naval Department has informed the commission that ‘the rebroadcasting of Naval Observatory time signals which are transmitted over a land wire is objectionable because of the inherent time lag in the system which creates an appreciable error in the signal." The Navy authorises stations to transmit the signals if they are intercepted by radio direct.