Sweepstakes Exchange in this order: Consecutive serial number (1, 2, 3, etc.; Precedence - Q, A, B, U, M, S (qrp, low power, high power, unlimited, multi-op, school); your call; last two digits of the first year licensed; ARRL Section.
Field Day Exchange: Field Day Operating Class; ARRL Section Some DX Contests still use signal reports as part of the exchange. The point is that in contesting, very few care about a signal report and whether you're arm-chair copy, wall to wall treetop tall signal pounding, etc. It's all about racking up as many contacts as you can in a defined time frame against a whole bunch of other hams all trying to do the same thing. Pete, wa2cwa On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:53:03 -0500 "D. Chester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't recall it always being that way. I seem to remember that > once upon > a time it was standard procedure to give a real signal report, > particularly > for Field Day, and I seem to recall that Sweepstakes used a serial > number > that simulated a message preamble and that part of the exchange was > the RST. > > But that was in the days when hams built transmitters too... and > most phone > was AM. > > Don, k4kyv ______________________________________________________________ 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.
