[CQ-Contest] Erroneous Ten Minute Violations
Barry
w2up at comcast.net
Wed Jul 29 15:10:04 PDT 2009
Michael Coslo wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Dave - AB7E wrote:
>
>
>> Yeah, I had the same thought myself. My logger (N1MM) uses the
>> computer clock, which is regularly updated online and is rarely off
>> by even a few seconds, but if the log checking process looks at
>> other logs to verify the time it could obviously cause problems. It
>> almost seems like this would be such an obvious opportunity for
>> false errors that it wouldn't be the case, but who knows. False ten
>> minute violations were common last year and made a lot of people
>> quite angry so I'm really surprised it didn't get fixed, whatever
>> the cause was.
>> test
>>
>
> Side notes:
>
> clocks are set all over the place, and even internet computer updating
> is not 100 percent reliable. I had a time server that kept (re)setting
> my clock incorrectly. So any determination of time off has to come
> from within that particular log, not what other logs are saying.
>
> When checking logs, it is found that times vary all over the place.
> I've seen Local time instead of UTC, I've seen wrong time zone instead
> of UTC. Otherwise 10 minutes difference in settings is not all that
> unusual. Amazing, but true.
>
> The log checkers or software need to be adjustable for the amount of
> deviation that is acceptable, and woe onto the adjudicator who sets it
> too strictly.
>
> While some arguments might be made that the individual Op has to have
> every single duck in order, as long as I can make the correlation
> between logs, that is if the Op is consistently off by 5 minutes, it
> counts.
>
> That being said, it would be really really nice if all Ops would sync
> their clocks with a reliable standard.
>
> -73 de Mike N3LI -
>
>
Considering how few DQs occur, I assume those that were DQed this year
were fairly blatant and egregious in their misdeeds.
Barry W2UP
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Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO
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