On 8/1/2021 9:13 PM, MIKE LAVELLE via wsjt-devel wrote:
What's wrong with signal reports... lots of us like to know how well we are getting out.
But signal reports only tell us signal to noise ratio in the other station's receiver, NOT signal strength. I use WSJT modes on 6M and 160M to make difficult QSOs -- (on 160M it's EU), so I run legal limit to better than average antennas and on 160M, have two reversible Beverages and two RX loops, but WSJT nearly always give signal reports to the stations I work that are 10-15 dB better than what they give me.
So signal reports in WSJT tell me far more about their station and its RX noise than how well I'm "getting out." And especially on VHF, if you can eliminate one "over" by exchanging only the grid, or by calling with TX2, we can squeeze 30 seconds out of a QSO and squeeze one third more into a short band opening!
The only reason I call with TX1 most of the time is that I'm a K9 living in W6, and don't want the other station to swing their beam in the wrong direction. I've lost QSOs that way. :)
73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
