[UK-CONTEST] Ending time

[Roger Thawley]

'twas I who raised this as a topic of discussion a few months back and a
number of views were forthcoming on the subject, however, it appeared that
the practice of many is to complete a started contact if it over-runs
slightly.

With regard to the 'clarification' issued by the contest committee, that's
all very well, however, the words of that clarification need to appear
within the formal rules before that clarification constitutes anything more
than a statement of intent...I assume the Contest Committee News item
stating that "The committee is now enforcing start and end times for
contests more strictly" means that some words along those lines have now
been published - I'll go looking for them when I get a moment!

 

Roger, G0BSU

 

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From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Keith Maton
Sent: 23 January 2011 13:57
To: UK Contesting
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Ending time

 

OK, I'll rephrase it.

The rules have been clarified by the RSGB Contest Committee to indicate that
all QSOs should be completed by the time the clock ticks over to the closing
minute.

Better?


73
Keith.



On 23 Jan 2011, at 13:41, Dave Sergeant wrote:

> On 23 Jan 2011 at 11:15, Keith Maton wrote:
>
>> The rules say that all QSOs should be completed by the end of the
>> contest, why is that so hard to follow?
>
> Except that they do not. Read the General Rules at
> http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/information/hfgenrules.shtml
> There is nothing in there that I can see that indicates QSOs should be
> completed before the end of the contest, or for that matter whether it
> is 21:30:00 or 21:30:59, or even 21:29:59.
>
> (and as an aside I see it says: "Incomplete contacts must be logged
> with zero points claimed.". Not sure how one does that in a Cabrillo
> log...).
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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