It used to be Standard Operating Procedure for all hams to keep their logs in Zulu, (Greenwich) time, in that for working other countries or other time zones, this is the only practical way to keep QSL card records.
I think it is remiss of current education in ham radio, that we do not emphasize the continued need for ALL emergency work, and casual operating records, to be kept, and in Zulu time, just in case we have to document it at some future time; when we were on the air on a particular date. Don't forget the date roll over, if your local date is some zones removed from GMT. Perhaps this lax time keeping currently, grew out of the dropping of the requirement of keeping a log; but I keep one for HF anyway, "just in case", and for QSL purposes, and documentation of emergency communications. Likewise, in working drills for ARES with Red Cross, we keep the Red Cross log in GMT, to have an unambiguous time reference, and we keep a clock marked GMT, in the Red Cross shack. It really helps to use that 24 hour based system, to know if an emergency message was delivered at midnite or noon. -Stuart K5KVH _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
