[CQ-Contest] Dumbing-Down Contests?

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

Okay, you guys made me go dig out my old logbooks...

I think this was Field Day on June 26, 1965 I operated SSB and both gave and 
received "honest" reports.

At 1811z I received a 47 from WA2QKG in New York and I have never been able 
to get over that!

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <w5ov at w5ov.com>
To: "Paul O'Kane" <pokane at ei5di.com>
Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Dumbing-Down Contests?


> EI5DI said:
>> It is broke!  It has been broken for over 20 years - since
>> computer logging became the norm.
>>
>> CT, the first major contest logger, had no provision for
>> logging RST Sent as anything other than 59(9).  Since then,
>> the mindless exchange of 59(9) has become redundant.
>>
>
> Paul,
>
> 599, or more accurately 5NN has been the default signal report for at
> least the 35 years that I have been contesting / DXing and probably goes
> back even longer than that.
>
> I think it might be more accurate to say that CT followed the de facto
> standard of logging 599 as the sent RST instead of causing it.
>
> 73,
>
> Bob W5OV
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