[CQ-Contest] WPX rules from the past

[Tonno Vahk]

Actually I just started to think that it does not matter if time before and
after is called OFF TIME or not!

IT IS NOT COUNTED ON TIME and that is what matters. The rules (opposite to
Cabrillo file, though) do not require 12 hours OFF TIME but 36h ON TIME.

Thus Hans and Milt are saying the same thing as Randy!? Meaning ON TIME
start when you get ON and ends when you get OFF. OFF TIMES of min 60 min in
between count. But anything outside of the ON TIME then is OFF time by
default even if we are not calling it OFF TIME, isn't it?? Thus whatever the
name - lost time - or otherwise it still counts as OFF TIME for the purposes
of rules as it is not included in ON TIME.

So everyone is saying the same thing after all.

es5tv

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Randy Thompson K5ZD
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:13 PM
To: 'K0HB'; kr2q at optimum.net; 'CQ-Contest'
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WPX rules from the past

Semantically correct.  According to the accepted norms and actual practices,
not correct. 

K5ZD

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K0HB
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:51 AM
> To: kr2q at optimum.net; CQ-Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WPX rules from the past
> 
> You can operate for a total of 36 hours.
> 
> Until you start operating, by definition you haven't taken 
> any time off.
> 
> "Time off" occurs >>>between<<< periods of operating, not 
> before or after you quit operating for the weekend.
> 
> If you start operating at 1130Z and operate continuously for 
> 36 hours until 2330Z and then close your station you have not 
> taken any "time off".
> 
> 73, de Hans, K0HB 
> 
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