We introduce RF frequency dissemination and synchronization system through an outdoor 880-m-long beam path with sub-picosecond timing jitter. The 880-m-long link is configured as a round-trip beam path between rooftops of two independent multi-story buildings. The reference RF frequency of 1.25 GHz is extracted from the fifth harmonic component of the 250 MHz optical frequency comb, which is propagated through the turbulent 880-m beam path. Excess phase noise during the propagation is measured by frequency mixing between the reference and transferred RF signals. After the suppression of the excess phase noise by using a voltage controlled phase shifter, we achieved the instability of 4.5×10-13 (1.3×10-16) at 1 (1000) s averaging time in terms of modified Allan deviation. The timing drift measured over 5000 s is 397 fs (rms).
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