Vng (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! VNG was Australia's national time signal service. It was inaugurated by the Australian Post Office on 21 September 1964. Originally it transmitted on 4500, 7500 and 12000 kHz from Lyndhurst, Victoria. After 1987 it relocated to Shanes Park, NSW, and transmitted on 2500, 5000, 8638, 12984, and 16000 kHz. VNG broadcast time in binary coded decimal, during seconds 21-58. It also broadcast DUT-1 information during seconds 1-16. Tones were usually of 1 kHz. VNG also broadcast a spoken time signal every 15 minutes. The exact words in earlier years were: If a leap second were to be introduced, a further voice announcement occurred.