If the signal report were one of the items checked in the logs as callsign
and zone or QTH are, we might start getting "real" reports. I get a few in
every contest different from 5NN. If the signal report was something that
made you lose a QSO if wrong, people like K0HB would surely send something
different from 599 to encourage actual copy.
As I recall the earlier readability, QRK, signal strength, QSA, reports were
very subjective with QSA actually being closer to signal-to-noise ratio than
strength. The S-meter on radios changed all that, now we have a number.
73, Jim w3cp
> >What is the purpose of the signal report in the exchange for the ARRL
> >160m
> contest?
>
> Same as every contest: Frame Alignment Word (FAW).
> What follows is useful information, listen closely.
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