[CQ-Contest] Operating time calculation

[Bill Turner]

It all depends on what is meant by "logging a contact at 2130Z". Is that 
precise point in time the beginning of the Q or the end? If that's the 
beginning of the Q, you will be over the limit when the Q ends. If it's 
the end - exactly - you are OK. IMHO, a contact is logged when it's 
over, thus if it is finished and in the log at exactly 21:30:00, it is 
legal.

Contest sponsors may have other interpretations, however. :-)

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Bill, W6WRT

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Original Message:

Ed Parish K1EP <k1ep at arrl.net> wrote:
> After getting docked in SS for going over the 24 limit, I think I
> have figured out the time thing.  If you have log entries for 2100Z
> through 2130Z, you have operated 31 minutes.  Minute 1 is 2100Z,
> minute 2 is 2101Z and minute 31 is 2130Z.  That 2130Z contact could
> have taken place at 21:30:59 and still be logged as 2130Z.
> Specifying a contest as starting at 2100Z and ending at 0300Z still
> means 30 hours exactly, as the ending time is 03:00:00.  The contest
> ends at 0300Z, but you can't have any log entries as 0300Z. 



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