We only have ourselves to blame for turning the RST into a synch pulse instead of anything useful. I have been going over my old contest logs from the '60s and '70s and find the RST reports were "hon
I'll make a bet that those that receive 579 OR 559 Log it as 5NN in their logging software, I know it is possible with most software to enter the diff RST , It ain't gonna happen in the Logs of MOST.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 02:56:53 -0700 (PDT), Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com> wrote: <snip> -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Perhaps your second paragraph explains the reasoning behind your first paragraph
This is the beauty of TR's interface: you do not enter exchange data in individual fields, you simply enter the exchange in one field and the software figures it out. If you do not enter any RST, it
Who says they aren't honest reports? The RST system is purely subjective, there is no set standard for the RS system. Some people think that the S in the RST is the S meter reading, but that isn't co
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:10:20 -0700 (PDT), John Geiger <n5ten@yahoo.com> wrote: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- According to your RST system, all signals would be 599, and that's what I said I li
PS: Now that I'm thinking about it, I can imagine having a little more fun by giving the big gun's reports like "229" as a sort of "Revenge of the Little Pistol's", knowing that it breaks nothing, ex
Thanks BIll, Glad to see I have won over 1 convert. Now if we could just get hams to realize that the S doesn't come from the S meter. 73s John W5TD http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-co
w7why@verizon.net wrote: "Doubt very much if the log checkers check every report to see if it is '599' or whatever." Finally, someone with a logical approach to an otherwise illogical subject! Concen