Skip Delay

[Dispatrick]

I always wondered when listening to Skip is there a delay of any sort? an example i can think of is when I listen to Missouri Highway Patrol here in Jersey. time signals are always to the minute with my clock. (im guessing if there is a delay it would only be a few seconds?)

thanks

 

[Don_Burke]

I always wondered when listening to Skip is there a delay of any sort? an example i can think of is when I listen to Missouri Highway Patrol here in Jersey. time signals are always to the minute with my clock. (im guessing if there is a delay it would only be a few seconds?)

thanks

This delay is very slight due to the speed of the waves.

Bouncing a signal off the moon involves about 2.6 seconds and that is considerably more distance than a bounce that goes all the way around the earth.

 

[nd5y]

There is a delay but it is extremely short.
It takes 6.17 microseconds (millionths of a second) for a radio signal to travel 1 nautical mile (6080 feet).
The time it takes sound waves to travel from a speaker several feet away to your ear is much longer in comparison.

 

[Dispatrick]

very cool thanks for the help, now out of curiosity i want to see if i can add it up lol, does anybody have an online time calculator of some sorts to multiply the the miliseconds and the distance between the signal and I?

(approx 782 nautical miles)

 

[fineshot1]

very cool thanks for the help, now out of curiosity i want to see if i can add it up lol, does anybody have an online time calculator of some sorts to multiply the the miliseconds and the distance between the signal and I?

(approx 782 nautical miles)

A regular calculator works just fine - see below

0.00000617 Sec X 782 = 0.00482494 Sec or 4.82494 milli seconds

in other words - you will never notice a delay that short.