[UK-CONTEST] Fw: 80m CC Times

[Peter Hobbs]

Surely all info needed to claim points in a CC test has to be passed between
20.00 and 21.30. i.e. within the 90 minutes, excluding an initial CQ made in
advance perhaps and any niceties after the last exchange.  An authoritative
response from HFCC would be welcome.

Peter G3LET

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Allan" <alex at gm3zbe.plus.com>
> To: "'Berni GU0IDA'" <g0ida at yahoo.com>; <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 80m CC Times
>
>
> > That's an interesting point, I am sure it must have come up before?
> >
> > If you say the contest STARTS at 08:00 and FINISHES AT 09:30 then you
> > should not be starting a contact at 09:30:01.
> >
> > If you interpret it as the contest RUNS from 08:00 to 09:30 you could
> > start a contact at 09:30:59.
> >
> > It would be interesting to hear an interpretation from the contest
> > committee?
> >
> > Mind you, I have in the past heard some pretty serious "rubber clocking"
> > no doubt with a little massaging of the time afterwards.
> >
> > I have one of those clocks which are locked to the Rugby transmission -
> > so I am never wrong :0)
> > Alex
> >
> >
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> > [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Berni GU0IDA
> > Sent: 16 March 2006 11:30
> > To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: [UK-CONTEST] 80m CC Times
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I need to reassure myself here...... am I right in saying that the 80m
> > CC contest starts at 20:00 and ends at 21:30. This I understand it be
> > 1:30 long..... and we all call CQ the second our clocks have turned
> > 20:00.
> >
> >   My question is this..... once our clocks turn 21:30 do we stop or can
> > we still go on until 21:30 and 59 seconds, as an example?
> >
> >   I ask this as someone yesterday at 21:30 and 25 seconds was telling me
> > that it's the end...... which really got my back up as you can make at
> > least 1 QSO in that time and there was someone calling me back but it
> > was all too late due to this other operator sending me "END". My clock
> > is set to my GPS so I know I do have the correct time.
> >
> >   After all if my first entry in my log is at 20:00 and my last one is
> > at 21:30 then I have run for 1:30 and not 1:29... if you see my point.
> >
> >   I just want to make it clear in my mind.
> >
> >   Cheers,
> >
> >   Berni
> >   GU0IDA