[CQ-Contest] Meaning of 'Off-Time'

David Robbins robbins at surfglobal.net
Sun Aug 12 14:48:27 EDT 2001


> > Then it hit me.  What does 'off-time' mean?  What if my competitor's
> > definition of 'off-time' is 'no transmitting.'  That means that they could
> > spend those 30 minute breaks filling their band-maps with mults.  Then
> once
> > their 30 minutes was done, they could run through those mults on their
> > second radio lickety split.  While that might not be an advantage to
> someone
> > who is really good on their second radio, it might mean 5 extra mults to
> > someone like me...
> 
> YES ,you could do that .Why not ?

check the contest rules, some of them have a note like 'listening time counts as
operating time' which would mean that if you were listening that would not be
off time.

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