[TenTec] Ten Tec Net

[Ken Brown]

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>    Thanks to the "media" for using non legal time zone designators.
>    This is why amateurs use (Z)ulu or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
>    I applaud TenTec for using Z times only
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Once upon a time the ARRL used Z, GMT or UTC for the W1AW schedule. Part 
of learning to be a radio operator was learning about time zones and 
knowing the conversion for you own local time to/from GMT, so that you 
could speak the same (time) language as radio operators all over the 
world. This is now too difficult for the ARRL, I have been told. So now 
they have the W1AW schedule listed for all of the time zones in North 
America, and just can't find the space to list the UTC times, or the 
brain power to keep it right throughout the year as W1AW's schedule 
remains constant for places that use daylight slavings time. I guess 
they expect the ionosphere to comply with daylight slavings too.

DE N6KB, not in North America