In article , dxAce
wrote:

Mark wrote:

No, nothing new as such. Some activity re ICE flights on 9032, the usual for
this time of the year I suppose.

What have you been listening to lately? Something interesting?

Nothing much of interest here at the moment. Soon I'll be looking for Indian
regionals though. That's the plan at any rate.

There is a good article in Monitoring times November edition about DXing
India.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

The original poster's problem was not with the word "quarter", but with
the word "of". The phrase "a quarter of nine" is completely
meaningless... what exactly is one-fourth of nine o'clock, anyway?
9:15? But "a quarter of nine" actually means 8:45.

It's not meaningless, and it's not that unusual. "Of" is used that way in a
lot of expressions -- "He's within 100 miles of Calgary." "That guy is two
bricks shy of a load." "Of" denotes proximity. A quarter is understood to
be fifteen minutes, for obvious reasons. A "quarter of" an hour is "fifteen
minutes proximity" of an hour. It's an old expression, I know, but it's not
all that uncommon around here (Wisconsin).