Signal Properties
Radio 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. Radio VNG also broadcast a spoken time signal every 15 minutes. The exact words in earlier years were:
"This is VNG Lyndhurst, Victoria, Australia on 4.5, 7.5 or 12 MHz. VNG is a standard frequency and time signal service of the Australian Telecommunications Commission. This is VNG Lyndhurst, Victoria, Australia on 4.5, 7.5 or 12 MHz."
If a leap second were to be introduced, a further voice announcement occurred.
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