[UK-CONTEST] 144 UKAC

[UKCONTEST]

Hi all

I entered the 144MHz UKAC Contest last night, mainly to check out the 
kit for Sunday's PW contest.

I used to operate in the UKAC contests a few years ago, but work has 
taken me away from home Monday - Friday so unless by fluke, accident or 
in this case a bank holiday, I don't operate in these contests. My entry 
is not a serious entry as I probably won't be able to compete again this 
year, in the UKAC contests.

I must say that there does seem to be a lot more activity from the 
central parts of GB this time around. Less JO squares seemed to be 
active. I wonder why ?

Anyway I pondered an interesting question during my weekly 250 mile 
commute to work, a question which is probably about rubber clocking....

So I commenced a contact with F1VNR/P, 30 seconds before the contest 
finished. He called me.

I commenced logging the contact but didn't complete the details until 
about 1 minute 30 seconds after the contest finished, hitting the enter 
key as I did.

(Clearly I was past the finish time, but it was a new square for me this 
year and loosing points isn't an issue).

However if I pressed the enter key at the start of the QSO (30 seconds 
before the end) and then edited the so logged QSO, would that count as a 
valid QSO? After all the QSO start time & finish time used to be the 
paper logs.

At what point is a QSO logged, and credit given for, in a contest?

As an amusing aside, a local G8 (I think) called me after I completed 
the contact to say I was past the contest finish time, according to his 
atomic clock that is. (I resisted asking did he have an atomic rooster 
to go with....).

This isn't a serious entry for me so I am not bothered about loosing points.

73

Adrian MW1LCR