Thanks Bill! That's helpful and makes sense. I asked the same question to
the cq-contest reflector, although I haven't seen it come across. If my
question doesn't bounce, it will be interesting to see what responses are
posted.
- Jay/K4OGG
At 04:50 PM 8/23/2000, Bill Coleman wrote:
>On 8/23/00 2:20 PM, John T. Laney, III at K4BAI@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>
> >Why don't you address that to WA7BNM? Since I only worked 4.44 hours, I
> >didn't worry about it. The summary sheet prepared by NA does show the
> >4.44 hours, but does not show the on and off times. The .PRN log file
> >does show on and off times, but I don't think the .LOG file shows it and
> >that is now in Cabrillo.
>
>Ah, I found the answer in the Cabrillo spec itself:
>
><http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/musings.html>
>
>The Important line is:
>
>"CLAIMED-SCORE is included so that a High Claimed Scores report may be
>generated. Line score data such a QSOs, QSO points, multipliers, on-time
>and off-time will be computed during the log checking process"
>
>So, the on and off time isn't needed to be listed, they compute it from
>the QSOs you log.
>
>However, for contests like NAQP and Sweepstakes, where there's a minimum
>off time, and listening counts as operating time, computing on time from
>QSOs isn't accurate. After all, you could be listening for 5 minutes
>before taking an off-time, for example. This opens the door to
>rubber-clocking your off-times.
>
>I suppose the contest adjudicators believed that anyone spending time
>like this isn't likely to win anyway, and further they had no way in the
>past to verify it, other than the contest QSOs themselves.
>
>
>
>Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@atlnet.com
>Quote: "Boot, you transistorized tormentor! Boot!"
> -- Archibald Asparagus, VeggieTales
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