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From: awpaeth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Alan Wm Paeth)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.astro,comp.dcom.modems,comp.misc,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: N.B.S. Time Service
Message-ID: <4691@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 88 15:09:41 GMT
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References: <455@trane.UUCP>
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In article <455@trane.UUCP> cook@trane.UUCP (Eric Cook) writes:
>
>	Your tax dollars at work......
>	I found this in Sky & Telescope. If you are doing projects requiring
>your computer syncing with UTC, this is for you. The phone number is
>(303) 494-4774, they are to add a 900 number in the future...
>[discussion of time signals via 1200 modem follows].

As I recall the current telephone number arrangement is truly by "land-line" --
the NBS has arranged with Bell that the signals not be routed via satellite,
as the speed of light path delay becomes a significant fraction of a second.
These guys are always "on guard for purity", and seem to do a good job at that.

   /Alan Paeth
   Computer Graphics Laboratory
   University of Waterloo