[PaQSO] OPERATING TIME PERIODS

[GENE]

I'd like for someone to provide a "Fine Definition", with a passband less than 10 Hz wide, the meaning, restrictions, and penalties for operating outside of those time periods.

IMHO, the time periods outside the specified operating hours should be defined as: "ALL RADIO OPERATIONS RELATED TO ACHIEVING POINTS IN THE PAQP, WHETHER DIRECTLY, OR INDIRECTLY, WILL CEASE !"  e.g. Using other frequencies/bands, during non-operating hours, to conduct on-the-air "scheduling", or "planning" to meet another station during published operating hours, on a given frequency, at an appointed time, for the purpose of obtaining points.

This activity is "operating outside the specified hours", it constitutes CHEATING, plain and simple, and those who do so should be disqualified.