Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following news from Radio New Zealand:
RNZ’s pips are changing – Can you hear the difference? (RNZ)
RNZ National is changing the pips – the beeps that mark the start of each hour which play immediately before the news bulletin broadcast.
The pips were last changed in 2013 when a lightning strike damaged the clock which sent signals from the Measurement Standards Laboratory’s atomic clock.
The replacement sound was a little higher. (Continue reading…)