If someone wants to do it, go ahead. Anyone with common sense knows the Qs won't count. The same is true if someone does more than 1440 minutes. It hurts no one as long as the station overttime doesn
I guess I feel fortunate. I don't care much for SS and get on so as to help my Contesting Club. Because of that, I will probably never come close to the time limit...so I ain't gonna worry about it.
I learned about overtime operating and off-time interpretation done from the Cabrillo log, in the NAQP, which is a max 10 out of 12 hour contest with min half-hour offtimes. I think there a couple of
An intelligent reading of the RULES, which only two posters seem to be unable to do, show they ONLY address the SCORING and not what you can do with respect to operating hours. Plus we have already h
It sounds like some members of the reflector are concerned that the current wording of the rules, and the current implementation of the rules, don't match. If that is the case, then one of three thin
Then change the rules to reflect reality. Announce it officially and post it on the official website. Mike W0MU Exactly who is being treated unfairly here? And how so? What if someone makes an honest
Two posters that are willing to address the issue has spoken on a reflector that is not encompassing of all contesters. Please site specific examples from the rules posted at the ARRL official site h
2.4. All entries may operate no more than 24 of the 30 hours. 2.5. Off periods may not be less than 30 minutes in length. 2.6. Times off and on must be clearly noted in paper logs. In electronically-
There is another rather esoteric fact regarding the rules in SS and the log checking described below... Listening time counts as operating time according to the rules. There is no way to mark listeni
I believe there has been some confusion between the rule and the enforcement policy. The rule is clear. The question at issue is about what happens when it is contravened. The contest sponsors do wha
Mike, You have already spent more time on this non-issue than you have spent operating SS in the past 5 years. The ARRL scores database shows that in the previous 5 years (10 SS contests - phone + CW
I have operated Sweepstakes Phone a number for times from Illinois and North Carolina and rates typically became brutally slow during the last hours. I cannot imagine anyone wanting operate more than
You will end up with two possible endings: A. A station penalized for operation that they, the station, receive no benefit from. I.E. The station continuing to hand out a multi without benefit to the
I can think (dangerous) of 2 ways that this doesn't mean anything. 1. I can't add and when I took 30 min actually turned out to be 29 , maybe 2 times I could easily violate the 24 hr rule . 2. I have
The contest sponsor has already stated that Q's after 24 hours are not scored, but there is no other penalty. There also is no penalty if your check is different that it was I bet the first statio