[CQ-Contest] Fw: When does the contest end?

[Rex Maner]

OK guys answer this one,  I start operating SS  at 2128,  Do I get to take
the full off time or did I start at 2100  ???

Quack


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hachadorian" <K6LL at adelphia.net>
To: "cq-contest reflector" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 18:10
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] When does the contest end?


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tree" <tree at kkn.net>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:10 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] When does the contest end?
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> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:27:26PM -0800, Ken Widelitz wrote:
> >
> >> In the 0000 and 0030 example, since there is only 29 minutes
> >> of off time -
> >> it shouldn't count as an off time at all, since off times
> >> require a minimum
> >> of 30 minutes.
> >
> > Technically true - but we have made the decision to count these
> > as a valid
> > break - but just for 29 minutes.  I call this "doing the right
> > thing".
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>
> OK, I think I've almost got it now. Let me go back to my original
> SSCW report:
>
> TIME ON CALCULATION
> 2100-0849 =  710
> 1313-1605 =  173
> 1635-0154 =  559
>            ------
>   On time = 1443 minutes (max of 1440).
>
> In the first segment, I made a qso at 0849, so 0849 was an "ON"
> minute. It doesn't matter if the qso occurred at 08:49:00 or
> 08:49:59.  You can't just do a simple subtraction to figure ON
> time, since the starting and ending minutes are both ON. You have
> to adjust the subtrahend, minuend or remainder by one minute.
>
> Notice that my total op time was computed to be 1443 minutes, but
> the individual increments (710 + 173 + 559) only add up to 1442.
> What happened here, I guess, is that my second break (1605 to
> 1635) was
> only 29 minutes long, because 1635 was an "ON" minute. Tree
> decided not to declare 29 minute breaks "illegal" because it is
> "doing the right thing." (Whew!)  However, the extra minute of
> operating time generated by my 29 minute break got added in at
> the end, and that's how the total came out to 1443.
>
> One thing I don't understand though. Why didn't the log checker
> compute my last op time segment (1635 to 0154) as 560 minutes,
> rather than 559? That would have made my op time 1444.
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
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