VNG was Australia's national time signal service, and operated on 2500, 5000, 8638, 12984, and 16000 kHz.
VNG broadcasted 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 as well.
It was shut down December 31, 2002, due to a lack of funding. Many scientific and astronomical users of the service were somewhat inconvenienced at the shutdown, and daytime reception of overseas time signal services from Australia is generally thought of as rather poor as the nearest time signal services are BPM in China and WWVH (or WWV) from the United States.
External links
Leaflet on VNG -- National Standards Commission (http://tufi.alphalink.com.au/time/nsc_vng_leaflet.pdf)
National Standards Commission, Australia (http://www.nsc.gov.au)
VNG has to ask two questions in this context: First, how can we ensure that everybody who wishes to be connected to our supply grid can do so without any discrimination and will be able, without any discrimination, to use all resources that he is legally entitled to.
VNG is an Eastern German enterprise, it is deeply rooted in the new federal states, and it is here where we sell our product, get our profit, and where we pay our taxes.
But the VNG Board of Managers has to point out that the balanced ownership structures of the past have been very positive for VNG, the employees and the region as a whole; and certain ideas about changes should take into account the this balance is to be preserved.
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