[CQ-Contest] Signal report

[W3CP]

If the signal report were one of the items checked in the logs as callsign 
and zone or QTH are, we might start getting "real" reports.  I get a few in 
every contest different from 5NN.  If the signal report was something that 
made you lose a QSO if wrong, people like K0HB would surely send something 
different from 599 to encourage actual copy.

As I recall the earlier readability, QRK, signal strength, QSA, reports were 
very subjective with QSA actually being closer to signal-to-noise ratio than 
strength.  The S-meter on radios changed all that, now we have a number.

73,  Jim  w3cp


> >What is the purpose of the signal report in the exchange for the ARRL 
> >160m
> contest?
>
> Same as every contest: Frame Alignment Word (FAW).
> What follows is useful information, listen closely.