Re: [Elecraft] Re: Rediculous, unreasonable and selfish firmware feature request..

2004-11-09 Thread David Pratt
While you're at it, Wayne, would it be possible to extract the signal strength in reports directly from the S-meter reading? All this 599 stuff in contests for every QSO does annoy me! 73 de David G4DMP In a recent message, wayne burdick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said I've added this to the

RE: [Elecraft] Re: Rediculous, unreasonable and selfish firmware feature request..

2004-11-09 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
the other guy going for the big score... Ron AC7AC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Pratt Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:20 AM To: wayne burdick Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re: Rediculous,unreasonable

RE: [Elecraft] Re: Rediculous, unreasonable and selfish firmware feature request..

2004-11-09 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
And I thought that 599 was just an official part of the exchange. :) On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: I used to give out real S-reports during contests. Too often that confused the other op who then asked for repeats. That slowed down the whole exchange. I finally defaulted to 599

Re: [Elecraft] Re: Rediculous, unreasonable and selfish firmware feature request..

2004-11-09 Thread David A. Belsley
On Nov 9, 2004, at 2:36 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: I used to give out real S-reports during contests. Too often that confused the other op who then asked for repeats. That slowed down the whole exchange. I finally defaulted to 599 even though the only contest contacts I made were entirely

Re: [Elecraft] Re: Rediculous, unreasonable and selfish firmware feature request..

2004-11-09 Thread Hank Kohl K8DD
Not to mention the standard 559 stuff in the QRP contests! 72 / 73HankK8DD At 11/9/2004 01:20 PM, David Pratt wrote: While you're at it, Wayne, would it be possible to extract the signal strength in reports directly from the S-meter reading? All this 599 stuff in contests for every

RE: [Elecraft] Re: Rediculous, unreasonable and selfish firmware feature request..

2004-11-09 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
I can't argue with you on that point Dave, you'd think that they'd drop it from the exchange. I find that irritating folks tends act like a feed line with a high SWR. The energy I had wanted to radiate just comes back to source and produces overheating and other unwanted side effects. I do