Of course I thought it through Dave. In the video you'll hear the DX operation say, "I gave him an 599 but he was an S1".
My point was "why bother with a signal report at all if the station doesn't ask for it". Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Have you guys actually thought this through?? In most cases, the DX is trying to work as many people as possible as fast as they can. Giving you an "accurate" signal report requires them to decide how strong you are (takes a small amount of time) as well as manually type into the logger a different number than the default (takes a lot of time, relatively speaking, to tab and type). Everyone else in the pileup is going to be glad you didn't get your "accurate" report. As for that "accurate" report, in most cases you aren't going to have a clue what kind of antenna the DX is using or even what direction it may be pointing at the moment, so signal strength is utterly meaningless. The DX isn't "lying" about anything. You are simply deluding yourself if you think their report means anything other than that you were strong/readable enough to get through the pileup, which you should have recognized by that point anyway. If you want a number different than 599, make up your own and log it ... it will easily have every bit as as much relevance under those conditions. Dave AB7E ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
