[WWYC] NEW! Please remove the 60 min off time rule in CQ WPX Contests

[Stein Roar Brobakken]

Hi

Yes, I know get more input how people doing this is in practice.. hi  hi

Well, I have been very strict to this rule and if I am away 5 minute then I
MUST stay off the radio for 60 min....
But yes, 30 min is enough penalty hi hi

I got one input from ON4BPM

I think these rules have been created for elderly people to really take some
naps during 48h and not simulate a break, going to a toilet, fixing a PA or
making something to drink / eat.

It rings me a bell that there was some story around year 2000 about some
older Japanese ham taking the 48h contests too seriously, who had critical
health problems due to refraining from sleeping (heart failure etc.) after
working 48h single op.



So maybe it is best to let it be as it is or scroll the time from 60 to 30
minute ? or let says minimum  2 hours ? 


73s LA6FJA

-----Original Message-----
From: wwyc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:wwyc-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Fabian Kurz
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 5:09 PM
To: wwyc at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WWYC] NEW! Please remove the 60 min off time rule in CQ WPX
Contests

Hi Rag and others,

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 01:46:18AM +0200, Stein Roar Brobakken wrote:
> I am being suggestion to REMOVE this 60 minute of time in CQ WPX contests
in
> Single Operator class for the CQ WPX contest Committee .

IMHO the 60 minute is good. It might be 30 minutes instead, but going
even lower makes no sense.

If there was no limitation, e.g. if I could take any 5 minute break as an
off-time, many problems would arise: It'd make rubber clocking very
attractive; you could search a new run frequency for 5 minutes and
count it as off-time; calling a rare mult in a pileup for some minutes
in S&P, even more off-time!

Such short off-times are uncontrollable, and you might end up
operating for pretty much all of the 48h, but have enough minutes
without QSOs here and there to make it look like you had 12h off-time.


73,
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