[SECC] Sweepstakes

[Jay Pryor]

Well, yes and no.  The web site you cite is after all entitled "Musings on 
the Carbillo Spec. . ."  It is not represented as being a contest rule or 
specification.

It's the ARRL's contest and the ARRL can specify the form in which they 
will accept entries.  However, asking for the off times seems to negate 
what I understood was one of the goals of Cabrillo -- to simplify things so 
that, for one thing, no off times needed to be listed.  So the bottom line 
is, instead of generating a summary sheet which includes off times, you put 
the off times in a different place, in your Cabrillo submission. I guess 
that makes it a tad easier.  But only a tad.

- Jay/K4OGG



At 07:00 PM 9/21/2000, Bill Coleman AA4LR wrote:
>On 9/21/00 8:32 AM, Jay Pryor at jpryor@arches.uga.edu wrote:
>
> >Watch out when submitting your Sweepstakes logs.
> >
> >There may be more discussion of this as we get closer to the date of the
> >Sweepstakes, but I just noticed that the rules state that off times must be
> >"listed separately in the 'Soapbox/Comments' section of an electronic
> >Cabrillo file submission."
> >
> >In other words, do not simply let your logging program produce your
> >Cabrillo log and send it in, thinking that your off times will be computed.
> >You must list your off times before sending.
>
>This is in direct conflict with the Cabrillo specification:
>
>"CLAIMED-SCORE is included so that a High Claimed Scores report may be
>generated. Line score data such a QSOs, QSO points, multipliers, on-time
>and off-time will be computed during the log checking process."
>
>See: <http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/musings.html>
>
>Since on and off times are computed from your logs, there is a potential
>for rubber-clocking. I think the contest judges feel that any sort of
>rubber-clock strategy based on listening during off-times is not likely
>to overtly affect the outcome of the contest.
>
>
>
>Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@radio.org
>Quote: "Boot, you transistorized tormentor! Boot!"
>             -- Archibald Asparagus, VeggieTales



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