[UK-CONTEST] Contest end time - a consensus please.

[Roger Thawley]

My contest buddy and I have become regular entrants of the RSGB 6M, 2M and
70cms Tuesday evening activity contests. For logging a 'retired' laptop is
used with Minos logger. This evening, while trying to complete the last
contact of the evening, deliberate interference was received from a G4
station, whose view was that the contest had ended, however, according to
the laptop, when the contact was initiated, the contest still had a minute
to run. In the end, I felt justified in persevering for a further 30 seconds
to complete the contact, partly because I'd started the contact before the
end of the contest and, partly, because of the deliberate interference. 

The view I take regarding contest timing is that I start and finish
according to the time shown by the equipment I have. I accept that it's
possible that the equipment is out by a minute or two - this is a limitation
of the equipment. I operate for the duration of operation allowed by the
contest rules and what I gain or lose at the start of the contest, I loose
or gain at the end.

 

In the end, this is just a hobby! What's the consensus is my view of the
world reasonable?

 

Roger

G0BSU