ONLY If you live in the east, John!
Up here it's Alaska Standard Time (AST). You get extra points in the next contest if you know the time difference between AST and UTC...no peeking :-) EST-UTC = -5 hours.
73 Ed - KL7UW
At 02:32 PM 11/3/2007, John Marranca, Jr wrote:
Frank:
That's what I have come to wonder! I read that some place before as well.AST
MIL-SPEC vs. "the spring". Hmm....which is better.....
Thanks for reminding me of something that I ALMOST forgot about.
Remember to change your SMOKE DETECTOR BATTERIES, my friends. It's Eastern STANDARD time tonight.
John KB2HSH
On 11/3/07, Franklin Antonio [email protected] wrote:
At 01:25 PM 11/3/2007, John Marranca, Jr wrote:
Does anyone know of a source of the MIL-SPEC right angle BNC adapters? I
am
using a hamfest special, and have a feeling that it's affecting my rx on
the
birds.
For kicks, cut it open. I did this once with a right angle "N" adapter that I bought at a swapmeet, and in which I observed poor performance. Inside I found the center conductor was a small spring! The idea, I believe, was that the spring would naturally form a gentle circular arc from the center pin of one connector to the center pin of the other, maintaining nice spacing from the sidewals. This would be fine at DC, or maybe HF, but at UHF this was worthless. The spring was electrically a coil, in other words an inductor, which was altogether the wrong thing. Laughable.
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John Marranca, Jr PBX Technician/Shop Steward CWA Local 1122 BN Systems, Inc Orchard Park, NY (716)972-2006 _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
73, Ed - KL7UW ====================================== BP40IQ 50-MHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com 144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xpol-20, 185w DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ======================================
Alaska time is either AKST or AKDT (standard time, daylight time). AST is Atlantic Standard time.
See http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/akdt.html
73 Glenn WB4UIV
At 06:10 PM 11/03/07, you wrote:
ONLY If you live in the east, John!
Up here it's Alaska Standard Time (AST). You get extra points in the next contest if you know the time difference between AST and UTC...no peeking :-) EST-UTC = -5 hours.
73 Ed - KL7UW
At 02:32 PM 11/3/2007, John Marranca, Jr wrote:
Frank:
That's what I have come to wonder! I read that some place before as
well.AST
MIL-SPEC vs. "the spring". Hmm....which is better.....
Thanks for reminding me of something that I ALMOST forgot about.
Remember to change your SMOKE DETECTOR BATTERIES, my friends. It's Eastern STANDARD time tonight.
John KB2HSH
On 11/3/07, Franklin Antonio [email protected] wrote:
At 01:25 PM 11/3/2007, John Marranca, Jr wrote:
Does anyone know of a source of the MIL-SPEC right angle BNC
adapters? I
am
using a hamfest special, and have a feeling that it's affecting my rx on
the
birds.
For kicks, cut it open. I did this once with a right angle "N" adapter that I bought at a swapmeet, and in which I observed poor performance. Inside I found the center conductor was a small spring! The idea, I believe, was that the spring would naturally form a gentle circular arc from the center pin of one connector to the center pin of the other, maintaining nice spacing from the sidewals. This would be fine at DC, or maybe HF, but at UHF this was worthless. The spring was electrically a coil, in other words an inductor, which was altogether the wrong thing. Laughable.
-- _______________________________
John Marranca, Jr PBX Technician/Shop Steward CWA Local 1122 BN Systems, Inc Orchard Park, NY (716)972-2006 _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
73, Ed - KL7UW ====================================== BP40IQ 50-MHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com 144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xpol-20, 185w DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ======================================
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Funny! May be the formal-legal usage elsewhere but it is never used when describing the time zone "in print" in Alaska. So I guess time in New York is NYST...Ha! Half the time when you give someone our state abbreviation they guess Arkansas?
OK AKST it is. No one in Alaska will know what you mean.
73 Ed
At 04:52 PM 11/3/2007, Glenn Little WB4UIV wrote:
Alaska time is either AKST or AKDT (standard time, daylight time). AST is Atlantic Standard time.
See http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/akdt.html
73 Glenn WB4UIV
At 06:10 PM 11/03/07, you wrote:
ONLY If you live in the east, John!
Up here it's Alaska Standard Time (AST). You get extra points in the next contest if you know the time difference between AST and UTC...no peeking :-) EST-UTC = -5 hours.
73 Ed - KL7UW
At 02:32 PM 11/3/2007, John Marranca, Jr wrote:
Frank:
That's what I have come to wonder! I read that some place before
as well.AST
MIL-SPEC vs. "the spring". Hmm....which is better.....
Thanks for reminding me of something that I ALMOST forgot about.
Remember to change your SMOKE DETECTOR BATTERIES, my friends. It's Eastern STANDARD time tonight.
John KB2HSH
On 11/3/07, Franklin Antonio [email protected] wrote:
At 01:25 PM 11/3/2007, John Marranca, Jr wrote:
Does anyone know of a source of the MIL-SPEC right angle BNC
adapters? I
am
using a hamfest special, and have a feeling that it's
affecting my rx on
the
birds.
For kicks, cut it open. I did this once with a right angle "N" adapter that I bought at a swapmeet, and in which I observed poor performance. Inside I found the center conductor was a small spring! The idea, I believe, was that the spring would naturally form a gentle circular arc from the center pin of one connector to the center pin of the other, maintaining nice spacing from the sidewals. This would be fine at DC, or maybe HF, but at UHF this was worthless. The spring was electrically a coil, in other words an inductor, which was altogether the wrong thing. Laughable.
-- _______________________________
John Marranca, Jr PBX Technician/Shop Steward CWA Local 1122 BN Systems, Inc Orchard Park, NY (716)972-2006 _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
73, Ed - KL7UW ====================================== BP40IQ 50-MHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com 144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xpol-20, 185w DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ======================================
Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
73, Ed - KL7UW ====================================== BP40IQ 50-MHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com 144-EME: FT-847, mgf-1801, 4x-xpol-20, 185w DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ======================================
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