Re: [amsat-bb] PCsat launch date

["Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL" <vlfiscus@xxxxxxx>]

What some hams may not know is that each time zone around the world has a 
letter associated with it. The time zone the U.K. is in is designated with 
the letter Zulu.

KB7ADL

At 01:16 AM 9/22/01 -0400, "Bill Jones" <wejones@megalink.net> wrote:

>Just as another data point, the term "Z"  has also been used for a
>long time (I think since before there even was a UTC)  for weather
>transmissions.  For example, a product from a non-US, non-
>military weather site from NZ:
>NZAA 211500Z 26007KT 30KM FEW025 12/10 Q1023 NOSIG
>
>
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