[UK-CONTEST] Ending time

[John Lemay]

I can just imagine ............... it's the peak of the Es season but sadly
24 hours has elapsed without DX, and with precisely one minute of the
contest remaining, a CT1 calls you on 2m. There's plenty of time to complete
the standard exchange, except that he spends 65 seconds explaining how
pleased he is to work you, first G station ever, etc, etc.

Then he remembers that you need a contest report ...........

Poor chap probably doesn't even know what time the contest finishes.

John G4ZTR


-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rob Harrison
Sent: 23 January 2011 16:42
To: UK-Contests
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Ending time

Hi, 

Roger 'BSU makes a valid point, which highlights the differences between
HF/VHF when considering rules. What may be appropriate for HF may not be for
VHF, and vice versa. Time is time and that's ok, but the nature of some
contacts on VHF mean you could start a contact at 22: 28 and still be trying
to complete by the finish at 22:30 in a UKAC.  

On VHF/UHF, if a contact is started just before the 
closing time, generally it has been the case that the QSO will be finished 
and logged and claimed for points, whilst not taking an exceedingly long 
time to complete. From what I've heard over 35+ years, generally that's been

acceptable to the participants of the contest, as it doesn't happen too 
often, and not to the same station very time. If this interpretation 
of the rules is now the norm and I lose the QSO well that's tough on me, if 
a little heavy handed.

I find it hard to imagine how you would record ALL contacts during a VHF/UHF

contest, due to the need for beams and the weak nature of some of those 
contacts. Unless you had many monitoring stations around the UK. 

It seems since increasing the numbers operating in contests, the need to 
tighten the rules has had to be addressed. Any ideas as to why that might 
be?

73

Bob G8HGN


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