Two log and time related comments: - Keeping a log is great when you have a neighbor that complains that you're the reason his (TV, Radio, VCR, Computer, Microwave, or Cat) went on the blink last week. You can go back and ask him when it happened and confirm/deny it was you when you both look over your log book.
- Sticklers for time in the U.S. should run (not walk) to WalMart (or Amazon.com) and pick up a new Casio "Wave Ceptor" Analog/Digital WWVB watch. The second time zone can be set to GMT (not London... there's a separate setting for London). The GMT setting is not prone to DST adjustments - meaning that there is no excuse for not being able to log the correct UTC/GMT time in your log. I've had mine for over a week, and I absolutely love this watch. - Daniel / AA0NI --- Stuart Rohre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > 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 > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
