Judging by some of the emails on just this reflector,
some folks computer times are not within 5 minutes or
sometimes five days...
--- "Paul T. Antos" <wb2abd@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> I don't remember the contest (probably something on
> 160M), but I had an LCR report once with mention
> that 2 Q's did not match in terms of a specified
> time period ( within 5min??). As I recall, I wound
> up using the paddle trying to break a pileup, and
> completed the QSOs without hitting <enter> to log
> the contact, which was done later. ( Silly, isn't
> it? ) I don't believe the Q's were dinged. I can
> visualize two logs having different times for the
> same contact - the running station already has you
> logged sending his exchange, then responds to your
> request for repeats, which puts in a delay until you
> send your exchange, putting a different time in your
> log.
>
> My ancient SS memories recall having to send the
> time of the contact as part of the exchange, which
> really flustered newby-me, because my time and the
> received time almost never matched. Oh Oh, what do
> I do now?
>
> ABD
>
> > My initial reaction was "of course you need to
> > log the time for every QSO!"
>
>
> Well, Ken, back before you were born it was a common
> practice to log the
> time only every 5 or 10 minutes. It's possible the
> ARRL has not adjusted
> the language to be more specific. We take a lot for
> granted in the
> generation of computer logging. It's not like the
> good old days.
>
> Gramps, N5OT
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