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Re: [CQ-Contest] RTTY Roundup is coming up soon!

To: Aldewey@aol.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] RTTY Roundup is coming up soon!
From: Jeff Stai <wk6i.jeff@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 16:31:37 -0800
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:15 PM, <Aldewey@aol.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification.  Seems odd , though.  I guess that means
> that if someone happen to take two 35 minute breaks early on , any
> additional  clock time until the end of the contest is considered operating
> time against the 24 hour limit - correct?
>

yes. At that point your best bet is to work through until your clock gets
to 24:00. ;)

>
> For some reason, at the time, we thought the log checking looked at the
> longest two breaks. But if it doesn't work that way, it's good to know.
>

To try and evaluate multiple possible breaks and make that decision ends up
making the log checking software much more complicated.


> For the casual participant, it probably does not matter that much.
>

Indeed. "Have fun!" 73 jeff wk6i


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