[UK-CONTEST] QSO times CC

[G3SJJ]

Exactly, Don, we concur.

1st para   agreed
2nd para  agreed
3rd para  agreed
4th para   very much agreed

JJ

Donald Field wrote:

>But Chris, as you say yourself, the contest time is not defined in
>seconds but in minutes. So if the contest finishes at 2130, that means
>that when the big hand hits 2130 the contest is .... finished ....
>
>It's not a 91 minute contest, or a 90 minute 59 second contest, it's a
>90 minute contest.
>
>Of course, I'm not so naïve as to believe that folk won't complete a QSO
>and then "adjust" the log afterwards, and because PC clocks are
>notoriously inaccurate the adjudicators will give the benefit of the
>doubt.
>
>But, frankly, after a season of contests, with (hopefully) lots of
>entries from each club, will it make a ha'porth of difference to the
>final placings? I very much doubt it.
>
>Don G3XTT 
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: 17 March 2006 20:15
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>Subject: [UK-CONTEST] QSO times CC
>
>There has been lots of discussion but no definite answer as to whether
>2130 is in or out of time.
>As long as we all play to the same final whistle what do's it matter.
>My thought on the matter is, for what its worth, is that the contest
>ends at 2130 and 2130 ends
>as 2131 begins, now if we logged to the second that would be a different
>matter, 2130:00 would 
>be in 2130:01 would not.
>The simple answer is for a member of the contest committe to say if 2130
>is acceptable or not.
>73,
>Chris, M0AJT.   
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