Re: [IRCA] The ABC Website Archives Really Do Work- Sometimes

[d1028gary@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Glenn, 

<<< Gary, Except you refer to ``at 1327 UT or 2327 Western Australian time`` as if WAT were UT +10 instead of UT +8, so something needs to be corrected here. There are three other Ozzies on 558, all really in the Eastern timezone UT +10 but none of them are ABC. 
73, Glenn Hauser >>> 

You are of course correct that Western Australia is in the UT +8 time zone, but the ABC website apparently lists these LR network program times according to the Eastern time zone program schedule, even on the websites that are supposedly for Western Australia areas. Daylight Saving Time changes and programming delays across time zones are other additional complications, but the "local" ABC websites apparently don't account for these. 

In the case of 558 kHz (and also on 531 kHz), since there is only one ABC station on the frequency, once the programming content is confirmed to be from ABC (such as by matching an MP3 recording with the ABC Podcast content) the challenge of positive identification is wrapped up. Of course many DXers on the west coast have heard these ABC LR and RN network programs long enough to be pretty sure of the source, but without a parallel frequency in the same network and time zone (such as 531/558, or 639/891) the ABC websites remain the best way to positively identify a mystery station. 

73, Gary DeBock 


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Subject: Re: [IRCA] The ABC Website Archives Really Do Work- Sometimes 

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