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History Forum / General / British History / January 2004GMT pips
A search of Google gives lots of references to a "six-pip" GMT time signal. Here in the UK, I seem to remember a time when it was only 5-pips and there was a bit of a fuss made when it changed to 6-pips. Can any other UK listener remember when the change was made? Regards Malcolm Bull >A search of Google gives lots of references to a "six-pip" GMT time signal. > >Here in the UK, I seem to remember a time when it was only 5-pips and there was >a bit of a fuss made when it changed to 6-pips. Can any other UK listener >remember when the change was made? I think, though I'm not certain, that it was always six pips. The change was from six *identical* pips to five short and one long. This was done to make it easier for automatic equipment to use it.  SignatureDon Aitken Mail to the addresses given in the headers is no longer being read. To mail me, substitute "clara.co.uk" for "freeuk.com". > A search of Google gives lots of references to a "six-pip" GMT time signal. > > Here in the UK, I seem to remember a time when it was only 5-pips and there was > a bit of a fuss made when it changed to 6-pips. Can any other UK listener > remember when the change was made? Were there ever 5? But, being interested, I looked around and found the following. I didn't realise there was so much hassle behind those pips! http://www.miketodd.net/other/gts.htm Surreyman DELIGHTFUL BRITISH SUBJECT!!! SIX PIPS OR FIVE? I love it.... DSH > DELIGHTFUL BRITISH SUBJECT!!! > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > DSH It's midnight and Radio 4 have Big Ben. Sorry. EDEB 9am 6 pips. 5 short 1 longer. EDEB > 9am 6 pips. 5 short 1 longer. Was it the radio or was it the daughter who woke up? Have a nice weekend with lots of good food, nice people and silence once in a while! Inger E > EDEB > Was it the radio or was it the daughter who woke up? It was the radio, as the other pip squeaked a while before!!! >Have a nice weekend with lots of good food, nice people and silence once in > a while! Thanks Inger - I'll certainly try - you and everyone else do too! EDEB. > > Was it the radio or was it the daughter who woke up? > > It was the radio, as the other pip squeaked a while before!!! Can't imagin why they manage to wake up before the clock starts when they are babies and as soon as they reach school-age it's the other way round..... IEJ > 9am 6 pips. 5 short 1 longer. > > EDEB I don't understand what this means. Pips are worn on uniforms to indicate rank, are they not? What am I missing? > > 9am 6 pips. 5 short 1 longer. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > indicate rank, are they not? > What am I missing? That they're talking about the equivalent of the Dominion Observatory Time Signal given at noon on the CBC in Manitoba: "Pip, pip, pip, pip, pip, pooop!". -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) >> 9am 6 pips. 5 short 1 longer. >> >> EDEB > >I don't understand what this means. Pips are worn on uniforms to >indicate rank, are they not? Also the seeds found within apples and oranges. >What am I missing? > > 9am 6 pips. 5 short 1 longer. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > indicate rank, are they not? > What am I missing? Nothing really. Old Spency however feels he has missed quite a few, hence his bitterness... Cheers Martin > > 9am 6 pips. 5 short 1 longer. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > indicate rank, are they not? > What am I missing? And found at posts. :-)) Surreyman > > 9am 6 pips. 5 short 1 longer. > > > > EDEB > I don't understand what this means. Pips are worn on uniforms to > indicate rank, are they not? > What am I missing? pip! pip! pip! pip! pip! peep! SignatureJohn Cartmell john@ followed by finnybank.com FAX +44 (0)8700-519-527 Qercus magazine & FD Games www.finnybank.com www.acornuser.com Qercus - a fusion of Acorn Publisher & Acorn User magazines > DELIGHTFUL BRITISH SUBJECT!!! > > SIX PIPS OR FIVE? > > I love it.... And that's why we prefer being British. :-)) Surreyman |
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