Most probably the reason for sending a signal report, rudamentary and
perfunctory as it is, ---is that it will fulfil the minimum qualifications for
a
valid contact.
If you want to get a qsl card that will count for award purposes, you must
have exchanged a signal report and callsign with the other station. No one
ever
suggested that the RST report is accurate. It just has to be there. Think
about all the 599s exchanged with DX peditions. However, if the 599 wasn't
there, both ops would have to lie when completing their QSL cards about signal
reports being exchanged.
There are contests now in which a signal report is NOT exchanged, so I would
suppose if you tried to use one of those contacts as the basis for a QSL card
that would "count" for awards purposes, you'd have to get the other station to
fib.
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