/"Should this be publicized more clearly?"/
All joking aside, I think the examples you provided are clear enough. To
avoid the unwelcome surprises, it would call for your examples to be
published where more people will read them. Stating the examples here is
fine, but this forum is more or less like preaching to the choir!
So... if we look at our watches and it's noon, and you tell me "I'll
meet you back here in an hour for a beer", I would expect you at 1:00.
There's nothing wrong with that, but technically only 59 full minutes
have passed, as you have shown.
73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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On 7/4/2013 1:18 PM, Ward Silver wrote:
It has nothing to do with "the robot". if the mechanics are of
interest, this is a consequence of how logs are (and must be) checked
when there are no seconds in the time. The robot only checks to be
sure that the log is properly formatted according to the Cabrillo
standard and that certain data elements like contest name and
date-and-time are acceptable. It is the log-checking software that
calculates off-time.
The log checking software generally assessed off-time by determining
whether during every individual clock minute (remember...no seconds)
you were "on" or "off" the air. You can't be both during an
individual clock minute - you can only be "on" or "off". When an
"off" minute is detected - no QSOs logged during that minute - the
off-time counter ticks up by one, starting from zero. It has to tick
for 60 consecutive minutes (in this particular contest) before a valid
break time is considered to have occurred. If an "on" minute is
detected before 60 ticks have occurred, the off-counter is reset to
zero. There is no rounding up to the nearest clock minute.
Should this be publicized more clearly? I should think so, as not
entirely unreasonable assumptions about what constitutes 60 minutes
are being made in the absence of a clear specification, resulting in
unwelcome surprises to the customers.
73, Ward N0AX
On 7/4/2013 10:04 AM, cq-contest-request@contesting.com wrote:
Now, of course, we know that the robot isn't too smart, so we must
let up to
61-minutes pass (at least those few of us who read this thread now know
that).
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