In case anyone missed this exchange last month on the CQ-contest
reflector - it came to light that the long-standing convention of
calculating off time as requiring 30 consecutive clock-minutes with no
QSOs had actually been set up in the scoring software to accept 29
consecutive no-QSO minutes and it would stay that way.
I don't suggest anyone necessarily attempt to cut it this close, but
some folks do so, this note is FYI.
BTW, I believe this is contrary to the way every, or nearly every
logging program calculates it. Writelog, for example, wants to see 30
consecutive minutes (not 29) with no QSOs before it calls the last
thirty minutes (not 29) off time. If you want to cut it close, you will
probably need pencil and paper to get it right.
73,
Hal
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Horn [mailto:bhorn at hornucopia.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 8:33 PM
To: Hal Kennedy; CQ-Contest
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NAQP Off Time Calculations
At 08:01 AM 12/17/2006, Hal Kennedy wrote:
>In the upcoming January NAQPs, will off times of 29 minutes using the
>QSO-minute calculation concept be granted amnesty in the log checking
>process?
Off-time calculations in the upcoming January/February NAQPs will be
calculated the same as they have been in the past: if the difference
between two consecutive QSOs is equal to or greater than 30 minutes, it
will count as off time. This is equivalent to two consecutive QSOs
between
which there are at least 29 minutes with no QSOs.
73 de Bruce, WA7BNM (bhorn at hornucopia.com)
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