[UK-CONTEST] Ending time

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Sorry Paul, I'm with G3YMC on this one - I do NOT see why I should have to spend money on a RF clock, satellite clock etc. I log on a netbook that doesn't have Internet access at the station location, so I rely upon it being reasonably close.

I'm don't mind loosing a final contact because I'm outside the time, without knowing it and I don't loosing a contact because I finish early, thinking I'm outside the time when I'm not.
If people are going to start getting that concerned about exact time and we need some form of atomic clock to be microsecond accurate, I'm going to stop contesting and save the money I was going to put into a better antenna for something else.

Luckily, it looks from G3UFYs post that the committee has a reasonable view on this and you just loose any contact outside the time.

Contests, along with the rest of the hobby, is just that, a hobby, it's supposed to be fun, not purgatory!

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73 de M0XDF

On 23 Jan 2011, at 08:21, Paul O'Kane wrote:

> On 23/01/2011 00:17, Michael Ruttenberg wrote:
> 
>> What leeway is there given that not everyone has identically synched clocks?
> 
> There are a couple of "right-time" options available
> to most of us, even without an internet connection.
> For example, teletext/satellite TV, and radio time
> signals throughout the HF bands.
> 
> Contests are like exams.  You don't open your paper
> before the start time, and you put down your pen at
> the end time.