[CQ-Contest] Another gratuitous SS-CW trick

[Dale Martin]

Let me get this straight:

If I work a station once the contest starts, I might be cited as having
heard that station before the contest started.

(How can I prove I didn't?)

If I don't listen before the contest, then I don't risk being cited for
having listened before the contest.
(How can one confirm I didn't listen?)

If I'm calling CQ before the contest, I can't be cited for having listened
before the contest.

But, I shouldn't work anyone before the contest because if I do I then put
the station I work at risk of being cited for having listened before the
contest?

The upside is (yes, there is an upside!) that whoever cites or charges me
with having listened before the contest is also guilty for having listened
before the contest.

73,
dale, kg5u

>
> Listening and/or transmitting in the time (minutes? hours?) leading up to
> the official starting time of the SS is operating, and must be
> added to the
> 24 hours of allowed operating time for SS.
>
> If you listened to 10 meters before SS began and homed in on NWT or Alaska
> or whatever, sat there, and worked it at 2100Z, and didn't count it as
> operating time, you cheated. Even if you are just casually operating and
> maybe looking for a Sweep, you cheated yourself.
>
> How can this even be in question?
>
> Jim Cain, K1TN
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