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Re: [RTTY] Why send 599 report

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Subject: Re: [RTTY] Why send 599 report
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: dezrat1242@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:57:04 -0800
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:10:48 -0600, Peter Laws <plaws@plaws.net> wrote:

>1) Everyone's setup is different and 2) few radios follow the "Collins
>Standard" (50 uV at the antenna terminals) ... or any other standard!
>
>Even if everyone had similar stations and all RSSIs met some standard,
>you couldn't prove that the information was "wrong".  And what about
>the case where a signal *is* 599?

REPLY:

Any one report doesn't mean much, but if you consistently receive low
reports or high reports, you'd see a trend. And if the report really is
599, that's what goes in the log. Just don't enter nothing but 599's. 

73, Bill W6WRT
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