[RTTY] Time Solution + 160m activity.

Harry Hodges w6yoo@cox.net
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:38:02 -0000


Hi All,

Yeah, using England puts you an hour off and Casablanca is right on.
Question is, how do you make the display time at bottom right corner of
monitor screen display in 24 hour format? Using Windows XP. TIA

73, Harry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Webb" <G0urr@btopenworld.com>
To: "reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 3:16 PM
Subject: [RTTY] Time Solution + 160m activity.


> Hello all, I had a lot of replies to my question regarding setting the
time
> zone on my pc. The following was the solution: The time zone should be set
> to Casablanca and Monrovia. This will give you GMT but without British
> Summertime. One answer was to untick the radar box saying Automaticaly
> adjust for daylight saving time. This apparently will not cure the
problem.
> According to a wise sage (GU0SUP ) who called my mobile within minutes of
me
> hitting the send button, the pc will not change for summertime, but
Writelog
> will look at which time zone you claim to be in and then adjust the time
all
> by itself. Therefore setting for Casablanca Monrovia gets around the
> problem. Anyhow i much prefer to think i am in Casablanca than Southern
> England !!.
>  On the subject of topband activity, i must point out to the reflector
> (because it was pointed out to me) that the UK bandplan states that
topband
> starts at 1.810. I will say no more on that. Therefore i will now  be
> calling CQ on 1.840 which is the RSARS designated calling frequency, and
> being a member of the RSARS it seemed like a good idea. 73's
> Robert Webb
> G0URR
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