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?

Mark.

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Mark wrote:

Yes. The +12 hours and the -12 hours are of course the same time. But on
different dates.

Anything new regarding Antarctica?






Mark.

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Mark wrote:

Your post raises an interesting topic. The relation between the sun,
a
compass and an analogue watch (or clock) is an equation. If you have
any
two
of these three items, the third can be determined.

For example, if you can see the sun, and you are wearing an analogue
watch,
you can determine true North. Or, if you have a compass, and you can
see
the
sun, you can determine what time it is.

Remember, that it is a watch or clock that is used to determine
longitude
also. First, you set your watch to midday exactly as the sun reaches
the
highest point in the sky (Note: your watch is now set to sidereal
time
and
not mean time).

Next, sail (for simplicity) due East. Next day, when the sun is at
its
highest, see what the time is on your watch. Let's say its 11
o'clock.
Then
you have travelled 15 degrees East of where you started (remembering
that
360 degrees of longitude divided by 24 hours is 15 degrees per
hour).

No navigator would be seen without his/her analogue watch!

Finally, a question: There is a time zone in the world which is set
to
UTC.
And there are 12 times zones which are ahead of UTC (+1, +2, etc)
(and,
yes,
some partial hour variations too). And there's 12 timezones which
are
less
than UTC (-1, -2, etc). That adds up to 25 time zones. Yet there's
only
24
hours in a day! What's going on? (Hint: the timezone at my location
holds
the answer)

It has to do with the International Date Line, correct?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

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.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Yes, it's getting worse down this end with all this daylight around! Better
for you though...

Mark.

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


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.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:37 am, HankG no_one@invalid posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

" Radio Flyer" wrote in message
...
"Quarter Of" and "Quarter After" are more southern terms, though used
other
places as well. "Quarter To" and "Quarter Past" are more northern terms
(Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Chicago). Zulu is also used in aviation.


"uncle arnie" wrote in message
...
I've never heard this before. What does "quarter of 10" mean? Is this
before 10 or after 10? I thought it was my hearing until this was
repeated. "quarter to" and "quarter after", rarely "quarter past" are
all
usual ways of saying this around here. Though digital clocks make it
"ten
fifteen". I think this must be a regionalism or slang for somewhere in
the
USA (?).

I also hear "zulu" said instead of UTC (or the old GMT).

I'm from the EAST (PA & NJ). All of the above (Radio Flyer's) examples
have
been and are still used. I think they are 'age' related, not regionally
related.

HankG

No. They are not used in western Canada. It has been clarified that these
are Americanisms. Not related to age. Are you over 50?

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:40 am, Michael Moore posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

uncle arnie wrote:
You got snow in Tronna?

No. The weather has been seasonably good here. I sure hope we do not
get what Halifax got.

Cheers!


We had snow and now it's gone. Lows of 10, highs of 10-15 this week. May
we all be spared ice storms!

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:44 pm, m II posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

wrote:

I was in my twenties before I doped out that a fifth of
whiskey meant a fifth of a gallon.


Not the right one. A twenty-sixer is a roughly a fifth of the US (128
ounces) gallon. The proper Gallon has 160 ounces.

26 liquid ounces is roughly 750 cc, or 3/4 liter.


A US ounce is bigger than an imperial ounce (.96 of a US oz.).

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:36 am, bug posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 08:19:02 -0600, uncle arnie
wrote:

I've never heard this before. What does "quarter of 10" mean? Is this
before 10 or after 10? I thought it was my hearing until this was
repeated. "quarter to" and "quarter after", rarely "quarter past" are all
usual ways of saying this around here. Though digital clocks make it "ten
fifteen". I think this must be a regionalism or slang for somewhere in the
USA (?).

You're kidding, right?


I also hear "zulu" said instead of UTC (or the old GMT).

Again, you're kidding, right?


bug

No captain, this is US-speak, and not part of my world. I knew what zulu
was, just found it weird. The other, never could figure it out. Nobody
says stuff like that around here.

"uncle arnie" -mex. wrote in message
...
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:44 pm, m II posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

wrote:

I was in my twenties before I doped out that a fifth of
whiskey meant a fifth of a gallon.


Not the right one. A twenty-sixer is a roughly a fifth of the US (128
ounces) gallon. The proper Gallon has 160 ounces.

26 liquid ounces is roughly 750 cc, or 3/4 liter.


A US ounce is bigger than an imperial ounce (.96 of a US oz.).


Well I better hide all my value-by-weight belongings from the metric police.

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:31:48 +1300, "Mark" wrote:


I
suppose I was outlining a rule of thumb, perhaps to be used in an emergency
situation, or simply as an exercise to demonstrate such relationships
between the three.

Agreed. It does go, at least ghenerally, to the relationships.
And you'd want to know whether you're in your hemisphere or mine
before you start. :-)



Anyway, after re-reading all of this, I realised I have drifted off-course

May I suggest following the sci.geo.satellite-nav newsgroup
for help with this part of the problem? :-)

and off-topic. Now, back to the radio....

Mark.
Auckland, New Zealand, which is located at 36 degrees, 52 minutes South, 174
degrees, 52 minutes East. And the magnetic variation is currently around 19
degrees, 30 minutes East.

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:28 pm, Radio Flyer posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM


"uncle arnie" -mex. wrote in
message ...
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:44 pm, m II posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

wrote:

I was in my twenties before I doped out that a fifth of
whiskey meant a fifth of a gallon.


Not the right one. A twenty-sixer is a roughly a fifth of the US (128
ounces) gallon. The proper Gallon has 160 ounces.

26 liquid ounces is roughly 750 cc, or 3/4 liter.


A US ounce is bigger than an imperial ounce (.96 of a US oz.).


Well I better hide all my value-by-weight belongings from the metric
police.

No, better hide them from the British Imperial System Police. Though I
guess metric police would have you give back 1.25 millilitres (1.25 cc) for
each US ounce.