[CQ-Contest] Signal report
I do almost all my operating with the RF gain reduced to help with Intermod
and makes for much better copy on both SSB and CW
How do you give a report when then S-Meter doesn't move and copy is solid ,.
Quack
> 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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