[CQ-Contest] The irony of Operating Time [was: Logging Time[was:Contesting Time Calculation]]

[Stuart Santelmann KC1F]

> OK OK
>
> When I get on prior to a contest and call CQ and start working guys with
> quick reports and say CUL OM and call another CQ and do the same I'm
> operating and establishing a freq so when the contest starts and somone is
> there waiting for the offical start time,  I'm cheating.  along with 90
> percent of the other compeditors.
>
> Now I guess I'll have to not Turn On the Radio or start the logging
program
> before start time or I'm cheating.
>

In WRTC 2002 the referees enforced no radio listening or transmitting until
the contest started.  Competitors didn't even learn their callsign until
five minutes before that start.

                                                Stu            KC1F