MEASURING FREQUENCY
CHECKING STATION AT TATSFIELD The frequency-measuring soar at the 8.8. C. receiving and cheeking station at Tatsfield is correct to one-tenth of a cycle if a megacycle is the frequency to "be measured; in other words, it is correct to a ten-millionth part.
Hundreds of measurements are made daily, and if any station is not keeping to its frequency, representations can be made founded on practically absolute accuracy. Tatsiield is the third receiving and chocking station of the 8.8. C. Previously similar stations wore at Keston and Biggin Hill. Each of these stations was erected in pleasant pastoral country in Kent, but, as London is continually encroaching on tho countryside, the possibility of yet. another station cannot ho excluded.
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Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 4
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121MEASURING FREQUENCY Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 4
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