[CQ-Contest] Effect of daylight savings on 160 meter contests

[john at kk9a.com]

Why would it have any effect?  For example the CQ 160m contest starts at
2200 UTC.  2200 UTC will be the same darkness regardless of local daylight
savings time. Not all parts of the US even switch to daylight savings time
and it varies even more worldwide.  About the only contest effected by
changing back to regular time is the ARRL Sweepstakes CW where the contest
is an hour longer:)

John KK9A


Richard NN3W wrote:

Ive noticed that many 160 meter contests have a start time that seems to
match that with sunset on the U.S. east coast and midwest.

Any thoughts as to if we will see a change to 160 meter contest start times
in 2023?

73 Rich NN3W