"hma" wrote in message
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SNIP
It looks very interesting.
That was local time in the state of Washington right?
I wonder what time this was in Indonesia or better your time
in UTC. This way we can all try to log some of it.

Hi HMA,

dxAce is correct-- the loggings were in UTC, which is the accepted time
format for loggings on shortwave (and usually mediumwave, too, though
Eastern Standard Time is sometimes referenced for MW). You can imagine the
confusion among DXers in different locations if the reports were stated in
various local time zones. So, long ago UTC (or GMT for the true-blue British
among us-- same thing) was chosen as the reference point. UTC is truly the
"starting point" for time zones around the world; every zone is referenced
as either plus or minus hours from it.

All the major shortwave stations give their programming times in UTC also
for the same reason, though many will also give the local times in the
target areas (where the audience lives).

For the record, the Indonesian stations I heard this morning were noted
around dawn my local time (currently 6:30am Pacific Daylight Time). This
equals 1330 UTC. If it had been local time, these tropical band signals
would not have been audible in North America because it would be early
afternoon at the receiver.

regards,

Guy