[VHFcontesting] June VHF Contest robot question

[Rogers, Ron]

So, as I prepare to submit the ARRL Field Day entry and want to ensure I
meet the ARRL set deadline, does the US Post office postmark mail in UTC
or local time ?? 

(I already know the answer, just ribbing about apparent inconsistency of
rules......and when using US Mail, those on the west coast gain a few
hours of grace period)

Ron
WW8RR 





-----Original Message-----
From: vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Carl Facer
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:17 PM
To: vhfcontesting at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] June VHF Contest robot question

Tim (and everyone else),
    I emailed the contests at arrl.org account and got a reply from Tom
Hogerty, KC1J, who stated that the robot uses UTC instead of local time.
I submitted mine last night and got the same message, but Tom assured me
that my log was indeed accepted. The earliest they should be allowed to
cut it off is today (2007-07-11) at 2359 UTC, but anyone who misses that
might be able to fight them on pure "misinterpretation" of the rules.
(Possibly "I thought you meant local
time!") As a recap, the ARRL rules for the 2007 June VHF QSO party, in
regards to log submission, are as follows:

6.3. Entries must be emailed or postmarked no later than July 11, 2007.
Late logs may be designated as checklogs only.
Source: http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2007/june-vhf.html

The only other relevant information I could dig up was the following
tidbit under Log Submission rules for ARRL contests:

Logs must be emailed within 30 days of the end of the contest.
Source: http://www.arrl.org/contests/fileform.html

Hope nobody gets caught out in the open by this one!


73s de KC2LLT/R

-Carl

I "missed" the deadline, but barely ... and my log was still accepted.

        Log Deadline: 2007-07-11 00:00:00 UTC
         Received at: 2007-07-11 00:44:49 UTC  ***AFTER DEADLINE***


On 7/11/07, Tim (KE3HT) <ke3ht at ke3ht.org> wrote:
> The ARRL contest robot did something strange last night. I was doing 
> my log submission a little close by a day to the deadline of June 11th

> (see the ARRL Web site: 
> http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2007/june-vhf.html)
> The robot said:
> *** Informative Messages from the Contest Robot ***
>
> [X] Log received 0 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes after deadline.
>
> How can this be when the deadline is June 11th (tonight)? 
> Traditionally the ARRL gives one month from the end of the contest to 
> report logs. It may be only one day but I had my best June contest 
> ever and now I feel like it was a wasted effort. The ARRL web site 
> should have said logs must be filed by July 10th rather than July 
> 11th. (Good thing the IRS always uses April 15th:-).
>
> I have already sent an email to the contests at arrl.org about this 
> problem but I am not sure if that is a bit bucket.
>
> Does anyone know of a good place to lodge a complaint or perhaps I 
> should just forget it?
> Thanks-
>
> ,,,Tim  KE3HT/zero-score/R
>
>
>
> -------------Full robot report------------------------ ARRL June VHF 
> QSO Party
>
>             Callsign: KE3HT/R
>    Category-Operator: SINGLE-OP
>     Category-Station: ROVER
>  Category-Transmitter: ONE
>       Category-Power: LOW
>             Location: Western Pennsylvania - WPA
>                 Name: Timothy P Ertl
>       Postal Address: 128 Hale st
>                       Dalton, MA 01226
>         Log Deadline: 2007-07-11 00:00:00 UTC
>          Received at: 2007-07-11 03:14:26 UTC  ***AFTER DEADLINE***
>        Reported QSOs: 212
>       Confirmation #: 4010521.arrl-vhf-jun
>
> Thank you for your participation in the contest and for submitting 
> your log to JuneVHF at arrl.org.  While the Contest Robot was able to 
> process your log, it has discovered some potential problems.  Please 
> correct the problems identified below and resubmit your log.  We want 
> to make sure that we have your information right!
>
> If you believe you have received this message in error or if you are 
> having problems creating the required log file, please contact me at 
> contests at arrl.org and I will try to help.
>
> 73.
>
> ARRL Contest Branch
>
>
>
>
> *** Informative Messages from the Contest Robot ***
>
> [X] Log received 0 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes after deadline.
>
>
>
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