OMA (time signal transmitter)

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Basic data
Place: Český Brod - Liblice
Okres: Kolin
Region: Central Bohemia
Country: Czech Republic
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 22 "  N , 14 ° 52 ′ 47"  E
Use: Time signal transmitter
Demolition : 1990
Data on the transmission system
Operating time: until 1990
Waveband : LW transmitter
Shutdown : around 1990
Further data
Transmission power : kW
Transmission frequency : 50  kHz

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OMA (Czech Republic)
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OMA was the callsign of a time signal transmitter in Liblice , Czechoslovakia . It transmitted on long wave at 50 kHz with a transmission power of 5 kW. The shortwave time signal OLB5 was also stationed at the same location .

Both signals sent seconds dots with minute identification and worked - in contrast to z. B. to the Russian channels - in continuous operation with a one-hour service break from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. They were shut down around 1990.

literature

  • Karl Ramsayer : Geodetic Astronomy , Handbook of Surveying Volume IIa, JB Metzler-Verlag, Stuttgart 1969, p. 183ff.