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Re: [CQ-Contest] The irony of Operating Time [was:Logging Time[was:Conte

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The irony of Operating Time [was:Logging Time[was:Contesting Time Calculation]]
From: Mike Coslo <mjc5@psu.edu>
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:18:31 -0500
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Stuart Santelmann KC1F wrote:

>>OK OK
>>
>>When I get on prior to a contest and call CQ and start working guys with
>>quick reports and say CUL OM and call another CQ and do the same I'm
>>operating and establishing a freq so when the contest starts and somone is
>>there waiting for the offical start time,  I'm cheating.  along with 90
>>percent of the other compeditors.
>>
>>Now I guess I'll have to not Turn On the Radio or start the logging
>>    
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>program
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>>before start time or I'm cheating.
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>
>In WRTC 2002 the referees enforced no radio listening or transmitting until 
>the contest started.  Competitors didn't even learn their callsign until five 
>minutes before that start.
>
>  
>
    Wow, how arbitrary can we all get? How long before the contest 
couldn't they listen?

    What might be even better is to mandate that all the contestants 
have to use a type radio that they have never used before, and can't 
unpack it until the contest starts! HI ;^)

    - 73 de Mike KB3EIA -

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