Fw: [CQ-Contest] Another gratuitous SS-CW trick

[Rex Maner]

OK  U          PRE-CONTEST  JUDGES

When it starts it starts >>>>>  Then your CLOCK starts

2100Z    or    00:00    or whenever

Quack


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Coleman" <aa4lr at arrl.net>
To: "Jim Cain" <cainjim at mindspring.com>
Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 01:26
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Another gratuitous SS-CW trick


> 
> On Nov 14, 2004, at 12:28 PM, Jim Cain wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> So, Jim, are you one of the contest judges? Can you show me where in 
> the rules or give a reference from a contest judge where this scenario 
> comes into play?
> 
> You can't accumulate operating time outside of the contest period. 
> Listening (or operating) before (or after) the contest starts (or ends) 
> doesn't count.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> So long as you worked the contact after 2100z, there's no cheating.
> 
> > How can this even be in question?
> 
> That's just what I'm thinking.
> 
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>              -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
> 
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