Author: kc0czi@midmoskywarn.net (Kevin Brown - KC0CZI)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:05:14 -0600
I am planning on working the ARRL 10M test coming up in a couple of weeks... However the ambiguity in the rules has me posing a question that perhaps one of you might be able to clarify. The rules st
Perhaps it would not be so ambiguous if you look at it as starting 0001 on the Saturday and ending 2359 on the Sunday, a full 48 hours. You would then need to adjust to your time zone, here on the Pa
Author: kc0czi@midmoskywarn.net (Kevin Brown - KC0CZI)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:25:37 -0600
Well... Very good. I understand 48 hours (more than I had requested from wife!) I'll have to politic the activity - it gets harder to schedule a contest around holidays! Part of what had me cross-eye
Very good point, Les, in fact, if your last QSO is entered at 2400 hrs it will be rejected by the log checking software at ARRL. At least mine was in Sweepstakes, I had to correct the last QSO to 235
I interpret what they've said to mean 140000Z December 02 to 152400Z December 02 (using your Military notation - I used to be in MARS where we used that too). They reference the day in terms of UTC -
The contest starts at 0000:00000000001 UTC, which is the first tick of the clock on Saturday in UTC. For us in the USA, it is late afternoon or early evening on Friday. It ends at 2400 UTC on Sunday
Ed and others, the ARRL used to specify "48 hr" contests as 0001 to 2359 to avoid the confusion, if I remember correctly. Perhaps, we should urge the CAC to revisit this convention? (Not really a Wri