[TenTec] Ten Tec Net Frequencies & Times?

[Ken Brown]

>  I dunno -- UTC seems so easy to me - just get it from WWV - no 
> calculations - no looking up is  daylight savings there , do they have 
> daylight savings , no plus or minus an hour etc etc .
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UTC is the standard way of expressing time of day by all radio operators 
who are communicating between different time zones. All radio operators 
should know the number of hours difference between their own local time 
and UTC. This is easy to do, and when you know your own offset from UTC 
there is no need to know what the offset is in other locations, provided 
that UTC time is used for published radio schedules. Using this long 
established standardized system is simple, effective and works for 
everybody in all time zones. Older ARRL publications even state that 
this is the correct and sensible way to do it. It requires less space to 
print a schedule this way too, even if along with the schedule offsets 
for a few time zones are printed for new operators who do net yet know 
their UTC offset. It is truly bizarre that ARRL refuses to use the time 
honored standard.

DE N6KB