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Re: [CQ-Contest] Signal report

To: Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm@telia.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Signal report
From: Julius Fazekas <phriendly1@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: phriendly1@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:23:22 -0800 (PST)
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Serial number and power...

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
TnQP http://www.tnqp.org/

Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366


--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm@telia.com> wrote:

> From: Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm@telia.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Signal report
> To: 
> Cc: CQ-Contest@contesting.com
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 2008, 9:42 AM
> Seems like many are concerned about not wasting
> time.
> Not to waist time people send cut numbers, doesn´t
> give callsign for every QSO etc.
> People doesn´t like to send signal report or zone,
> and so on and so on.
> Hey why ever bother turning on your equipment in the
> first place, you will just waist time.
> Not to waist any time lets stay of the air everybody.
> 
> Seriously, if we aren´t going to send signal report
> and zone in CQWW, what are we going to send?
> 
> / Jim SM2EKM
> ------------------------
> Paul O'Kane wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <somata90924@mypacks.net>
> > 
> > 
> >> THATS THE ANSWER ----SEND A REAL REPORT.
> > 
> > There is no such thing as a "real" report. 
> The ARRL
> > realised that many years ago, and it's why no
> reports
> > are needed on QSLs for ARRL DX awards.  Is it time
> > for the Contest Branch to follow suit?
> > 
> > DXers and Dxpeditions still send 59(9), but only
> > because "something" has to be exchanged - to
> serve as
> > an acknowledgement.
> > 
> > For as long as archaic rules oblige contesters to send
> > reports, the vast majority will continue to send
> 59(9).
> > As such, there is nothing to check. 
> > 
> > In last month's CQWW CW I received 2619 5NNs and 1
> 55N.
> > I sent 2620 5NNs.  That's an obvious waste of time
> for
> > everyone concerned - perhaps 1.5 hours for me out of
> > 29 hours operating, the equivalent of losing 134 QSOs.
>  
> > 
> > 73,
> > Paul EI5DI
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