OK U PRE-CONTEST JUDGES
When it starts it starts >>>>> Then your CLOCK starts
2100Z or 00:00 or whenever
Quack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr@arrl.net>
To: "Jim Cain" <cainjim@mindspring.com>
Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 01:26
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Another gratuitous SS-CW trick
>
> On Nov 14, 2004, at 12:28 PM, Jim Cain wrote:
>
> > Listening and/or transmitting in the time (minutes? hours?) leading up
> > to the official starting time of the SS is operating, and must be
> > added to the 24 hours of allowed operating time for SS.
>
> So, Jim, are you one of the contest judges? Can you show me where in
> the rules or give a reference from a contest judge where this scenario
> comes into play?
>
> You can't accumulate operating time outside of the contest period.
> Listening (or operating) before (or after) the contest starts (or ends)
> doesn't count.
>
> > If you listened to 10 meters before SS began and homed in on NWT or
> > Alaska or whatever, sat there, and worked it at 2100Z, and didn't
> > count it as operating time, you cheated.
>
> So long as you worked the contact after 2100z, there's no cheating.
>
> > How can this even be in question?
>
> That's just what I'm thinking.
>
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
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