Ed:
Geepers, How logical! I guess we hams don't know how to read. So, I
could operate the first 60 minutes, be off the second, be on the third,
etc., until I reached 24 hours total in the contest?
One MUST be careful of taking 60 minutes (at least the way N1MM counts
hours off). I took 60 minutes and about 20 seconds of during the recent
CQ WPX event, and N1MM didn't credit it. I don't know if the contest
scoring group will credit it, but I wasn't near the max allowed, so it
won't make a real difference.
Since I seldom operate even 24 hours of a contest, the subject is moot
for me.
I'll be very interested in the grumbling about "not being able to choose
the 'best' hours of a >24 hour stint" and still compete in the 24 hour
category.. I'm sure there will be some.
Congrats on your excellent interpretation of what us dolts who need a
refresher course in Forth Grayde Englyshe.
72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time
On 7/2/2013 12:00 PM, cq-contest-request@contesting.com wrote:
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 14:29:19 -0700
From: Ed Muns <w0yk@msn.com>
To: "'VE5ZX'" <ve5zx@hotmail.com>
Cc: 'Contest Reflector' <CQ-Contest@Contesting.COM>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rules for 2013 Announced
The "first 24 hours" was added to clarify which 24 hours will be scored when
the log has more than 24 hours of QSOs.
No change was made to the operator's choice of which 24 hours to operate. The
operator can start at 0000z Sunday and operate the last 24 hours of the 48-hour
contest period. Or, an hour on followed by an hour off repetitively for the
entire 48-hour contest period. The operator is free to choose any form of 24
hours operating time, constrained only by 60-minute off-times between the first
and last QSO.
Ed W0YK
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