[CQ-Contest] Signal Report

[Paul J. Piercey]

Like I said before... What's wrong with a random number? Your logging
program issues one that you pass on to the other station and his does the
same for him to send to you. No more mindless 59 5 or enn e junk. No
prefilling of the exchange. You'd have to be able to pay as much attention
in the 47th hour as you would in the 1st. Rates would drop but it'd also be
more interesting.

73 -- Paul VO1HE
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> kr2q at optimum.net
> Sent: December 11, 2008 11:53
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Signal Report
> 
> Of course, your son is correct.  It serves no purpose (any 
> longer) other to tell the other guy, "get ready, here comes 
> the part you actually have to copy."
> 
> In theory, the same is true for CQWW, except you don't have 
> to send anything since:
> A.  everybody is 599
> B.  you already know what zone everybody is in (99.9% of the 
> time) C.  if B isn't correct, then AD1C will take care of that  :-)
> 
> Personally, I like some of the exchanges from the 3830 DASH 
> (of decades ago)...
> 
> These varied per "contest" and included:
> *what you had for dinner (I sent SOUP once, which a lot of 
> folks still remember) *name of your pet (I remember Bonzo 
> from K1KI) *total # of element used during the last contest 
> (by the time I added them all up, the DASH only had 1 minute 
> left) *etc
> 
> Not only did you have to COPY the information, but it was FUN
> 
> de Doug KR2Q
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