[CQ-Contest] CWSS and daylight savings time

[David Gilbert]

Uhh, that doesn't make sense at all.  Like Mal said, sunlight and 
propagation (and the contest) run on UTC, not local time.  They haven't 
changed relative to each other.  Why is that so difficult to understand?

I grew up in Minnesota, and this entire discussion reminds me of when 
DST was first being debated in the legislature there.  Some rural 
lawmakers were against it because they said the time change would 
confuse the cows and they wouldn't know when to come in for milking.  
Some urban lawmakers were against it because they said the extra hour of 
daylight would burn the grass.  I'm not kidding ... you could probably 
find these comments documented in the newspaper archives or even.

Dave   AB7E



Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> It wont change propagation in general, but it COULD affect decisions on band changes.  Under old time change standards, folks on the east coast get perhaps 1 hour of good run time on the high bands before folks start to transition to 40  meters.  In 2006, the sun sets at 5:39 p.m., which means that 40 meters is already viable by 2100z and skip is lengthing quickly, but folks tend to linger to max mults and QSO counts  in the Plains and on the Left coast.  By contrast, in 2007, sunset is not until 6:40 p.m. which means closer to 2 hours of high band operating time.
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> There is a nuance here.
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> 73 Rich NN3W
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