Re: [CQ-Contest] How to be sure you have 60+ minutes off time

[Robert Chudek - K0RC <k0rc@citlink.net>]

/"However we have learned here that the robot doesn't tell time like 
ordinary folks..."/
Yeah butt...  :-)

[Theoretically] what if the robot HAS been programmed to allow 12:00 to 
1:00 timestamps to qualify as 1 hour but they're just not tell us? 
Imagine how long the "How to be sure you have 60+ minutes off time" 
thread would be in that case?
Just sayin'... and waitin' for the fireworks...

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN

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On 7/4/2013 11:24 AM, Radio K0HB wrote:
> Rex,
>
> I guess my point is this......
>
> Most people consider the passage of an hour as measured by a clock to 
> be "the same minute one hour later", and I think most contesters 
> (without this discussion) would apply the same measure.  That isn't 
> "gaming", it is just the ordinary way people think about time.  If my 
> doctor tells me take 2 aspirin at noon and another dose an hour later, 
> I'll plan on taking the second dose at 1:00, not 1:01.
> However we have learned here that the robot doesn't tell time like 
> ordinary folks, so to be safe we must wait for 61 minutes of elapsed 
> clock time before the next contact.  I'm not saying that's good or 
> bad, just that we must be aware of it or the robot will not credit our 
> time off.
> 73, Hans, K0HB
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Rex Maner
> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 3:50 PM
> To: 'Radio K0HB' ; 'Zivney, Terry' ; 'CQ-Contest'
> Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] How to be sure you have 60+ minutes off time
>
> Hans
> Of course  they have to game (rubber) the clock for a few seconds on each
> end or they lose the 60 min .  Or they could just sit for that extra 
> 15 sec
> then the time will come out correct.
>
> Quack
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Radio K0HB
> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:28 AM
> To: Zivney, Terry; CQ-Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to be sure you have 60+ minutes off time
>
> "Game the rules".  Really!?!?!?!?
>
> Any reasonable person would assume that after more than 60 minutes have
> passed, he could make the next contact.
>
> Now, of course, we know that the robot isn't too smart, so we must let 
> up to
> 61-minutes pass (at least those few of us who read this thread now know
> that).
>
> The rest of the contest world who carefully wait only a full hour aren't
> "gaming the rules", they are doing exactly what the rules specify that 
> they
> do.  Does the "spirit of the rules" require them to wait 61 minutes?
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zivney, Terry
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 11:44 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to be sure you have 60+ minutes off time
>
> My personal belief is that much of the grief that contesters have with 
> the
> rules is a desire by some to 'game the rules' - rather than understand 
> the
> 'spirit of the rules.'
>
>
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