Comments on: CQ WW RTTY Contest http://www.k2dsl.com/2008/09/29/cq-ww-rtty-contest/ In the chair and on the air... Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:25:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David, K2DBK http://www.k2dsl.com/2008/09/29/cq-ww-rtty-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-4 David, K2DBK Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:28:24 +0000 http://www.k2dsl.com/?p=60#comment-4 Congratulations on your excellent showing in the contest. I operated for around 14 hours and wound up with roughly half of your score with a similar setup. (100w, G5RV). I only really operated on 80m on Friday night, which definitely cost me a bundle, but I just "play" in contests, so that's OK with me. I was thrilled with my score in any case. As for the off-time, I believe that the way that N1MM calculates it is by taking a look at the time between QSOs. Once there's 30 minutes or more, it starts counting that as an off-time. I think there's no other real way to it to calculate an off-time (though I guess it'd be nice to have a switch), but I think that the idea is that for most contests off-times must be a certain minimum length anyway, so that's why they do it that way. My time calculations will get messed up especially if I'm just making a few QSOs, stepping away for a few minutes, then coming back, since it'll show me "active" for more time than I really was. I think the only real way to get a truly accurate time would be to keep a log. Congratulations on your excellent showing in the contest. I operated for around 14 hours and wound up with roughly half of your score with a similar setup. (100w, G5RV). I only really operated on 80m on Friday night, which definitely cost me a bundle, but I just “play” in contests, so that’s OK with me. I was thrilled with my score in any case.

As for the off-time, I believe that the way that N1MM calculates it is by taking a look at the time between QSOs. Once there’s 30 minutes or more, it starts counting that as an off-time. I think there’s no other real way to it to calculate an off-time (though I guess it’d be nice to have a switch), but I think that the idea is that for most contests off-times must be a certain minimum length anyway, so that’s why they do it that way. My time calculations will get messed up especially if I’m just making a few QSOs, stepping away for a few minutes, then coming back, since it’ll show me “active” for more time than I really was. I think the only real way to get a truly accurate time would be to keep a log.

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