{"id":919,"date":"2008-12-27T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T14:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/news\/?p=919"},"modified":"2018-05-08T11:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:55:16","slug":"msf-technical-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/news\/msf-technical-information\/","title":{"rendered":"MSF Technical Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npl.co.uk\">MSF transmission<\/a> from Anthorn (latitude 54\u00b0 55&#8242; N, longitude 3\u00b0 15&#8242; W) is the principal means of disseminating the UK national standards of time and frequency which are maintained by the National Physical Laboratory. The effective monopole radiated power is 15 kW and the antenna is substantially omnidirectional. The signal strength is greater than 10 mV\/m at 100 km and greater than 100 \u03bcV\/m at 1000 km from the transmitter. The signal is widely used in northern and western Europe. The carrier frequency is maintained at 60 kHz to within 2 parts in 1012.<\/p>\n<p>Simple on-off carrier modulation is used, the rise and fall times of the carrier are determined by the combination of antenna and transmitter. The timing of these edges is governed by the seconds and minutes of Coordinated Universal Time (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coordinated_Universal_Time\">UTC<\/a>), which is always within a second of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Every UTC second is marked by an &#8216;off&#8217; preceded by at least 500 ms of carrier, and this second marker is transmitted with an accuracy better than \u00b11 ms.<\/p>\n<p>The first second of the minute begins with a period of 500 ms with the carrier off, to serve as a minute marker. The other 59 (or, exceptionally, 60 or 58) seconds of the minute always begin with at least 100 ms &#8216;off&#8217; and end with at least 700 ms of carrier. Seconds 01-16 carry information for the current minute about the difference (DUT1) between astronomical time and atomic time, and the remaining seconds convey the time and date code. The time and date code information is always given in terms of UK clock time and date, which is UTC in winter and UTC+1h when Summer Time is in effect, and it relates to the minute following that in which it is transmitted.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated MSF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galsys.co.uk\/categories\/ntp-server.html\">NTP Server<\/a> devices are available that can connect directly to the MSF transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Information Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npl.co.uk\/time\">NPL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MSF transmission from Anthorn (latitude 54\u00b0 55&#8242; N, longitude 3\u00b0 15&#8242; W) is the principal means of disseminating the UK national standards of time and frequency which are maintained by the National Physical Laboratory. 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