[ILQSO] Hours of contest

[Hank Greeb]

Jeff:

You didn't miss anything.  There are a few dunderheads like me, who go 
by force of habit.  :)   I was one who reported 12 hours operating time 
on 3830 at contesting.com.  Just a memory lapse.  I forgot to turn "on" the 
timer on my logging programme when I started, so it was wrong.  I put 12 
hours when reporting to 3830 at contesting.com, and this reflector, because 
this was my first ILQP and I was used to Michigan and Ohio's 12 hours.  
I might even have used 12 hours for the summary sheet I sent to N9JF, 
because when one error starts, it's hard to recover.

Actual operating time was 8 hours, less considerable time spent warming 
up from the 40-ish temperatures and 25+ MPH wind operating from a dining 
canopy!

Apologies all around. 

73 de n8xx Hg (N9Q during ILQP 2006! Tnx to all for a great event!)

Ny4n at aol.com wrote:

>I see where some stations are showing 12 hours of operation time, I thought the contest was only 8 hour in length. Did I miss something?  Ny4N jeff
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