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 On 10/3/2011 12:18 PM, Geoffrey Downs wrote: > Quite agree Ron, yet this 59/599 thing seems to be deeply ingrained into > dxpeditions and contests these days. Speaking for myself I would far rather > have a true report so I know how I'm getting out to the relevant place at > the relevant time. > > 73 to all > > Geoff > G3UCK > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron D'Eau Claire > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 7:05 PM > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 4W6A Video, count the K3's ! > > That's great Iain - tnx! > > But WHY give someone a "599" report when they have an S1 signal? They made > the contact. They got into the log. That's the goal. Why lie about the > signal strength? > > If someone asked about their signal I'd hope they got an honest reply. > > (I feel the same way about contests, but the justification there is that a > "signal report" is required by the rules for a valid contact. I've never > seen a rule that it has to be a valid signal report, so it's 599 for anyone > who gets into the log, Hi!) > > 73, > > Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
