[CQ-Contest] RST as a sync [was: cut #]

[Bill Turner]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 02:56:53 -0700 (PDT), Ev Tupis <w2ev at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>We only have ourselves to blame for turning the RST into a synch pulse instead of anything useful. I have been going over my old contest logs from the '60s and '70s and find the RST reports were "honest" reports, not an endless column of 599's.
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><humor>
>PS: Now that I'm thinking about it, I can imagine having a little more fun by giving the big gun's reports like "229" as a sort of "Revenge of the Little Pistol's", knowing that it breaks nothing, except for the monotony between S&P operations for us. <g>
></humor>

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Perhaps your second paragraph explains the reasoning behind your first
paragraph.

I greatly prefer the "endless column of 599's" over an "honest
report". Even more, I prefer contests that do not require a signal
report at all, honest or otherwise.

Bill W6WRT