Re: [HCDX] RNZI off air on 30th Sept for Antenna Maintenance

["Paul" <format4nz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Daylight saving actually started at 3AM on Sunday 30th September ...... or 
if you like at 1500 UTC on Saturday 29th September ...

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser" <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <hard-core-dx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [HCDX] RNZI off air on 30th Sept for Antenna Maintenance


> Wrong, wrong, wrong. RNZI is royally mixed up yet again. Sept 30 is 
> Sunday, not
> Saturday. Apparently they are also not aware that summer time already 
> started
> UT Sept 29 at 1400, so local time is UT +13. That would convert to 
> 2135-0500
> UT, presumably Saturday into UT Sunday. The incorrect UT conversion should 
> have
> read 2235-0600. Experience also shows that such predicted downtimes are 
> often
> only approximate and it may be missing beyond these times. Always beware 
> of
> quoting RNZI website without explicatory, corrective notes such as these 
> (Glenn
> Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> --- Alokesh <alokeshgupta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >From RNZI website.......
>>
>> Saturday 30 Sep Off-Air for Antenna Maintenance
>> 27 Sep, 2007 22:05 UTC
>>
>> Saturday 30 September, we regret further antenna repairs are required.
>> Transmission on short-wave will suspended between 1035 - 1800 NZST
>> [1035-0600 UTC]
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alokesh Gupta
>> New Delhi, India.
>
>
>
>
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