[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement - the next version

Richard Solomon w1ksz at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 8 19:37:13 EDT 2015


Not the entire state of Arizona !!
There is part of an Indian Reservation in the Northeast corner of the state
that does observe DST.

Now this is really OT !!

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On 3/8/2015 3:27 PM, kevinr at coho.net wrote:
> It used to be: Spring ahead, Fall back.  Now it is Winter ahead, Fall 
> back.  Except in parts of Indiana and the entire state of Arizona.  I 
> once crossed the Hoover Dam to have a two hour time difference at the 
> other side.  That was odd!
>     Kevin.  KD5ONS
>
> On 3/8/2015 3:06 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:
>>> You can tell I'm having a slow day :-)
>> Today, Sunday March 8th, 2015, is the DST Transition day, so-called 
>> Spring Forward, so today has only 23 hours.  Count them, 23 hours.  
>> In the Fall, we have a day with 25 hours.
>>
>> So, is today a slow day?  If you pile in the same activity and number 
>> of events today as any other ordinary 24 hour Sunday, then you might 
>> say it is a Fast Day.  I mean, Events per Hour must go up if Events 
>> are constant and hours drop by 1.
>>
>> But, it could also be a fast day just merely thinking that at 23 
>> hours, there is less time to complete this day and thus tomorrow 
>> comes more quicker -- thus, today must be faster.
>>
>> How is it that your day is slower?
>>
>> 73, phil, K7PEH
>>
>> P.S.   Yes, I am waiting for the varnish to dry on the raised panel 
>> door out in the garage.  When you are waiting, time marches on at a 
>> slower pace -- so, maybe today is a slow day if you are waiting for 
>> something.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 8, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Phil Wheeler <w7ox at socal.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> They moved the length of DST due to energy conservation issues, Kevin:
>>>
>>> "The current schedule was introduced in 2007 and follows the Energy 
>>> Policy Act of 2005 
>>> <http://www.timeanddate.com/laws/us/energypolicyact2005.html>, which 
>>> extended the period by about one month. Today, DST starts on the 
>>> second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November."
>>>
>>> More info here: 
>>> http://www.timeanddate.com/laws/us/energypolicyact2005.html
>>>
>>> You can tell I'm having a slow day :-)
>>>
>>> 73, Phil W7OX
>>>
>>> On 3/8/15, 12:54 PM, kevinr at coho.net wrote:
>>>> It appears I have missed the change to daylight savings time.  Why 
>>>> in the world did they change it so early?
>>>>
>>>> At any rate stick with the local times and change the Z time.
>>>>
>>>> The sunspot number is low but the solar flux is over 100 which 
>>>> bodes well for this afternoon's nets.
>>>>     73,
>>>>          Kevin.  KD5ONS
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