At 10:40 AM 2/7/03 -0500, Ron Notarius WN3VAW wrote:
>Jim has a point.
>
>For a 24 hour category to work w/in a 48 hour contest, it would have to be a
>contiguous 24 hour period. Exactly which one may be up to the contest
>sponsors (ie UTC Saturday only, UTC Sunday Only, or any given 24 hour
>period) but it needs to be one 24 hour block. Otherwise the "24 hour" gang
>can cherry pick the bands they want to maximize Q's.
That's exactly why this category is potentially interesting. The strategic
decisions to be made are part of the fun.
>Or to put it another way, there should be a way of distinguishing, IMHO,
>YMMV, between someone who runs in the 24 Hour category and someone who
>operates 24 Hours in the 48 Hour category. After all, isn't one of the
>reasons for proposing this category is to accommodate those who only have
>one 24 hour window available to operate on the contest weekend?
No. It is to encourage people who would only operate 8 or 10 or 12 hours
to make a 24-hour effort, composed of whatever time they can spare or their
bodies will let them do.
73, Pete N4ZR
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