[Elecraft] Re: Elecraft[6/31] - Time Change

[Phil Barnes-Roberts AD6PQ]

At 04:01 AM 10/31/04 -0500, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net juggled the 
keys to produce...

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>Message: 19
>Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:46:30 -0700
>From: Kevin Rock <kevinrock at earthlink.net>
>Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
>To: Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
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>Good Evening,
>      The annual clock change has me working out a new set of numbers for
>the net.  Thus tomorrow at 2200z it will be 4 PM here in the Pacific Time
>Zone.  The frequencies will remain the same but the propagation seems to
>have improved.  Our sun is back to near where it was a year ago happily
>ionizing our D, E, and F layers.
>      I hope you can join us for a few exchanges.  It has been mentioned
>(well actually it was at lunch today with N7NLU) it may be interesting for
>a few of you to interact a bit longer after each of the nets is over.  I
>agree whole heartedly.  Please use this net as a watering hole and either
>use the frequency after we're done or move a bit above and below it to
>meet up.  The Thai food was good as was the conversation.  Hopefully we
>will all try a bit of hiking together and then maybe a bit of Elecraft
>trail operating in the future.
>
>Please join us tomorrow on the Elecraft CW Net held:
>Sunday 2200z (Sunday 4pm PDT) 14050 kHz
>Monday 0100z (Sunday 7pm PDT)  7045 kHz
>
>Visit our web site: http://ecn.visionseer.com/ for further details.  Thank
>you for the web space Dan.
>
>All are welcome on ECN; Elecraft radios are not required.
>
>See you tomorrow,
>          Kevin.  KD5ONS (Net Control Operator 5th Class)
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Um, Sorry, Folks - including Kevin--

We seem to wrap ourselves around the axle twice a year trying to do this 
right.  It's almost as bad as having to do metric/English conversions and 
back, to make things work that should have been straightforward.  (Yes, I 
work there, but wasn't involved directly in that fiasco.  Just laid off 
during the recovery was all.)

While the original rationale for having Summer Daylight "Saving" Time has 
long since faded into obscurity, the fact of its hanging on in our laws (in 
_most_ of the US) is still with us, and we still screw it up!  It would 
only take the political will to inject some sanity on Capitol Hill and 
abolish the thing.  If companies want to stagger their hours to avoid "rush 
hour", more power to them.  Get some more afternoon time after work to do 
projects in good weather -- talk to the boss.  The Guv'mint shouldn't have 
to tell you to.

UTC-PST is _8_ hours, not 6. UTC-PDT is _7_ hours.  After you get your 
clocks all over the house adjusted to the old saw of "Spring Ahead and Fall 
Back", check your computer, and listen in on WWV if you can, and reassure 
yourself that UTC hasn't changed.  I finally got myself a $30 Timex at 
Penney's that has two time zones, and I can keep Zulu time unchanged on the 
one, local on the other.  Very handy, now if I can ever get on the air in 
all this mess around here!




73, Phil Barnes-Roberts AD6PQ < mailto:pbarnrob at acm dot org >
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