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[Ed Muns]

Starting late or stopping early contributes to your 6 hours of off-time, but does not count toward your 2 breaks.  The two breaks are the first two periods at least 30 minutes long each between your first and last QSOs.  Shorter breaks or breaks beyond the first two are counted as operating time.  QSOs made after your first 24 hours do not contribute to your score, but count for the other station if they are within their 24 hours.  Leave all QSOs in your log!

73,
Ed W0YK
On Dec 29, 2016 2:25 PM, Richard Ferch <ve3iay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Pierre, 
>
> You can take as many breaks as you want, but you can only count two of 
> those breaks towards your mandatory six hours of off-time. As long as you 
> have taken either one single off-time of at least six hours, or two chunks 
> of off-time that between them add up to at least six hours, you will meet 
> the off-time requirement and you can operate or not as you wish for the 
> rest of the contest. 
>
> Each of these off times must be at least 30 minutes long - that's 30 
> consecutive clock minutes during which no contacts have been logged. The 
> Cabrillo file only gives the hours and minutes part of the time (no 
> seconds), so waiting exactly 30 minutes and no seconds will almost never be 
> enough. You need to start counting at the beginning of the next minute on 
> the clock after the last contact and wait until the full 30 minutes has 
> passed after that before logging the next contact. You can take shorter 
> breaks, of course, but those short breaks won't count towards the required 
> six hours. 
>
> If you start late by half an hour or more, or stop half an hour or more 
> before the end of the contest, that can count as one of your two official 
> off times in order to meet the six hour requirement. 
>
> 73, 
> Rich VE3KI 
>
> VE3KTB wrote: 
>
> I'm a bit perplexed by rule 2.2.  Does this mean that once I have stopped 
> operating twice that I'm done for the contest if I stop again? 
>
> ... 
>
> What happens if I start the contest some hours late?  Is that considered 
> one of the off periods? 
>
> And, what would be the minimum time between contacts to count as off-time? 
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