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

Mike Coslo mjc5 at psu.edu
Sat Jan 7 20:18:31 EST 2006


Stuart Santelmann KC1F wrote:

>>OK OK
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>>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.
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>>Now I guess I'll have to not Turn On the Radio or start the logging
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>program
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>>before start time or I'm cheating.
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>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.
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    Wow, how arbitrary can we all get? How long before the contest 
couldn't they listen?

    What might be even better is to mandate that all the contestants 
have to use a type radio that they have never used before, and can't 
unpack it until the contest starts! HI ;^)

    - 73 de Mike KB3EIA -



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