[CQ-Contest] CQWW - are signal reports optional?

[Mark Beckwith]

Can't argue with this.  I thought you reduced it to "E" but had sped up the
code to 248WPM thereby sending the signal report so fast that the RF never
got past the TR relay.

That can happen, you know.

Mark, N5OT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul O'Kane" <paul at ei5di.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 1:33 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQWW - are signal reports optional?


> In CQWW-CW I had about 450 QSOs - mostly on 10m, both
> running and hunting.
>
> In all QSOs the exchange I gave was 14 - not 5NN14, just
> 14.  Only four stations asked for their RST, indicating
> that over 99% accept that it makes no difference (to them)
> whether or not the other station gives a report.
>
> The 99% are right - it doesn't matter!  Their logs will
> show 599 received, and my log will show 599 sent.  Even
> if I gave something other than 599 to the stations who
> asked for a report, it still does not matter what's in
> their log or in mine, as reports are not cross-checked
> in CQWW.
>
> Yes, the rules say that RS(T) should be exchanged, and
> I broke the rules.  I did this to draw attention to the
> rules themselves, and to the archaic practice of
> exchanging 5NN in major contests.
>
> Perhaps the rules can be updated, because a "rule" that
> is not enforced is not a rule - it's a recommendation.
>
> Recommendations are not mandatory, they're optional. It
> follows, therefore, that the exchange of RS(T) in CQWW
> is optional.
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
>
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