is the Maidenhead grid square of an experimental shortwave time signal station in Italy. It is located in the town of Corsanico-Bargecchia Search for country "I" and frequencies 10000 & 15000 kHz. Full resolution coordinates are only visible in PDF download.
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and operated by Italcable
Associazone Amici di Italcable
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Transmission format

The station transmits at 10 MHzNew italian Time Station on 10.000 kHz
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,A new Italian time stn on 10 MHz
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announcements (in a female voice) each quarter-hour. The balance of each minute is filled with instrumental music, as well as SSTV images. At the end of each minute is the standard

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time signal, as generated by INRiM ( Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, National Institute of Metrology Research) and broadcast intermittently on Italian radio and television stations.Segnale orario RAI Codificato (SRC)
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/ CEST time of the following minute is transmitted in binary-coded decimal form. Bits are sent using frequency-shift keying between 2,000 Hz (binary 0) and 2,500 Hz (binary 1) at a rate of 30 milliseconds per bit (33⅓ baud). 32 bits are transmitted during second 52, and 16 additional bits during second 53, as follows: The example time is 1994-05-01 at 13:26. The day is a Sunday, summer time is in effect (CEST =

UTC+2 UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00. In ISO 8601, the associated time would be written as 2020-11-08T23:41:45+02:00. This time is used in: As standard time (year-round) ''Principal cities: Cairo, Pretoria, Cape ...

, so the UTC time is 11:26), and will remain so for the next week. No leap second is scheduled for the end of May. Although the time code only includes two digits of year, it is possible to deduce two bits of century using the day of week. There is still a 400-year ambiguity, as the

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repeats weeks every 400 years, but this is sufficient to determine which years ending in 00 are leap years.

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