As a less experienced CW operator, the various portions of the exchange (especially during the more complicated exchanges) act as "markers" so I know what to listen for next. In that sense it is more important than a signal report.
The signal report is a standard, a tradition. That being said, there are variations that of propagation, local noise, QRN and QRM that limit its value. But this is the fun that is ham radio. If you want to contest, there are contests. If you want to chase DX, you can do that. If you want to rag chew, there is plenty of that going on. Ham radio means different things to different people, and even different things to the same people, at different times in their life. It is a pretty impressive hobby. 73, did not mean to stir things up. Stay well, stay safe. Dave Wilburn NM4M David Pratt wrote: > So why bother with sending reports in contests if they are meaningless, > Dave? I remember as a new young licensee in the 1950s we used to work > in contests to get reports to see how well we were getting out. One of > the contest rules of the day was that any station consistently getting > tone reports less that 9 could be disqualified. Those were the good old > days. Since then the world has gone mad. > > If everyone is 599, why not just "NR 001" etc ? I have to admit that on > the rare occasions I work contest stations my reports are not always > 5NN. They could be 5DN or even 5BN. > > 73 > > David > > In a recent message, David Wilburn <[email protected]> writes >> Everyone is 59(9) in a contest. There are keyers out there that >> handle serial numbers. As one example; >> http://www.idiompress.com/K5.html ______________________________________________________________ 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
