What if my computer clock is off by 5 minuets because it has not been on for
8 months?
Or if I'm using a mechanical RTTY machine and am looking at the clock and
sending everything manually?
What does it matter as long as the "time" (which is a no more than a serial
number really) is the same for the contact?
More thought needed here...
73
Jim W7RY
-----Original Message-----
From: Simone Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 3:30 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] BARTG HF Contest 2015 Preliminary Results
CQ,
I have noted a significant problem, highlighted by a few respondents, where
the exchange element of the QSO time is out by one or more minutes. This can
happen as the clock ticks over the minute mid QSO and under difficult
condition, even two minutes. Whilst the original time is transmitted the
number finally logged is the current clock time due to the wrong time macro
being used in the exchange setup. I have therefore decided to allow a
tolerance of two minutes on the exchange time to cope with this very common
fault.
The test has been re-uploaded and is again available at the URL below.
73 de Simone. M0BOX
BARTG Contest Manageress
http://tinyurl.com/opezrbn
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