[CQ-Contest] dit dit dit

Robert Chudek - K0RC k0rc at citlink.net
Wed Nov 30 21:01:55 PST 2011


I have contest logs from the '60s where RST was sent as a variable, a 
real world guesstimate about the strength of the station you were 
working. This was 'pre computer' days.

Later, with the introduction of CT, NA, TR, etc RSTs became pretty much 
set in stone as 599, even when you needed 4 repeats to get the QSO logged.

Enter cut numbers... 599 then became 5NN and more recently ENN.

Now with the latest revelation that RSTs are not cross-checked, there's 
opportunity to improve the exchange efficiency even further. I just 
reprogrammed my macros with EEE4.

If I'm reading the threads right, Zone doesn't really matter either so 
it looks like EEEE(tm) is the next logical step.

Dang, I have to wait almost a full year to test this out... or maybe not!

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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