[UK-CONTEST] Contest Periods

[Bob Henderson]

The CQ 160 timing was a response to folks who can't understand that 00:00:01
is after 00:00:00 and that morning starts a full minute before 00:01:00.
That they chose to pander to this kind of muddled thinking is unfortunate.

If you commence timing a 24 hour contest on the leading edge of the first
minute of a 24 hour period you must end the contest on the leading edge of
the first minute of the next 24 hour period.  Of course that leading edge of
the first minute of the following 24 hour period is coincident with the
trailing edge of the last minute in the first period.

If you time your contest from the leading edge of the first minute to the
trailing edge of the last minute you don't have a 24 hour contest.  What you
have is a 24 hour + 1 minute contest.

All of this is very straight forward stuff.  Folks just need to get their
heads around it.

Bob, 5B4AGN


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Beebe" <gu4yox at cwgsy.net>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 1:00 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Contest Periods


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> Phil Cooper said :
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> The contest finishes at 2130, ie it is PAST the end at 21:30:01, so you
have to log that last one at 2129, even if it is at 21.29 and 61 seconds!
> As for the start, you can start at 20:00:00 and not a second before!
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> Interesting this one. The way I view this is according to the rules in CQ
160M this year the contest period was 0000z to 23.59z Therefore, I would log
all calls that were in this period. so if I logged a call at 23.59 and 55s
this would be ok as it was in the 23.59 period, (just as a qso at 00.00.10
is in the first minute). The log also says 23.59z However, interestingly,
CQWW 2005 rules stated that the contest period is 2400z to 2400z So I would
log up to 24.00.59 as my log would state 24.00z for the last QSO. A distinct
difference here of 1 minute in my reckoning. I wonder what the official view
is. The 23.59z rule seems to be more correct but I suppose it depends on
wether the times are inclusive or cut offs?
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> 73
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> Bob
> GU4YOX
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