----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Chester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:51 AM Subject: [AMRadio] Contest signal reports
> I am not a quarmtester, but sometimes I will work a few stations, > particularly in daylight hours during a 160m cw qrmtest. The challenge is > to see what kind of signal might make it across unusual distances during the > day, and I don't bother to keep score and usually not even a log. > > But I always give honest signal reports. To me, this business of > automatically giving everyone a 599 report is ridiculous, and defeats the > whole purpose. IMO, an operator who has to ask for several repeats to get > the essential information, and then gives a 599 report is a LID! > > And the same goes for the automatic "five-nines" on slopbucket. If they > want my contact, they will have to tolerate my carrier and a real signal > report. > > Don k4kyv > I see from a quick reveiw of this thread, that things are going on too long in this thread, but just a quickie - I hate the signal reports required as a part of many contest exchanges. I've complained for years that they're lame and absoloutly meaningless (especially receiving a 59 or 599 after umpteen repeats of information). Replace them with something like the operator's name, or power class, etc. Anything but that stupid 59 or 599. But, whenever I bring it up, all I get is some pathetic argument about how the RST is a "tradition" in the contest. Ugh! OK, enough said by me. This thread is going on way too long. 73, Ellen ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
