As this drifts further from the original topic... I find it amusing that a station will ask me to repeat my callsign and name several times, and then give me a "59" report.
I think I messed up several people over the weekend contest by giving them "5-7 08" reports instead of what they expected. One station actually lost their "contest tempo" when I came back with "45 zone 8." Working back toward the original topic... I generally give signal reports based on what I think the signal would be with the RF gain fully clockwise, and attenuator and preamp both turned off. To me, that would be the "natural" and unmodified smeter reading. (I've never given better than 57 on 10 meters.) This best meets my understanding of what that portion of the signal report should be: A report of signal level as it is received by my rig (and not a signal level as my rig has modified it.) Of course, I'm a "newbie" ham, so I'm probably doing it all wrong. 73 - Gary / k3wow On Jul 15, 2010, at 1:21 PM, The Smiths wrote: > > Exactly! > > Regardless of the fact that in 1934 (as was indicated to me in off reflector > email) we used to not use the meter for the S report, at some time (1970's > when proper calibration and standardizations' came about) we were able to > shift that OLD antiquated 1934's definition over to a STANDARDIZED S meter > reading as part of the RST. > > Now R is just that, Readability. How well can you copy someone. S is > Strength of the meter, which everyone should have set to the same approximate > level, and T for quality of tone. > > Some old habits die hard. Not everything first invented in Ham radio has to > be forced until the world ends. Much to some peoples Chagrin, we DO evolve > as ham radio operators. > ______________________________________________________________ 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
