[CQ-Contest] Contest exchange

[Doug Renwick]

Good plan James.  I am with you on this one.  I also avoid sending that
silly 59 in the exchange.  Very, very few protest and actually some even
respond similarly.  I could care less what happens to my log if I submit it.
I would presume that those who made a contact would not remove me from their
log because I omitted 59 ... hypocrites.  Logging programs default the
exchange anyway.  
Doug
"Think of all the ways you can hurt yourself laughing."

-----Original Message-----

Hi Jim,

While I agree that the RST requirement doesn't provide much of a test of 
our ability to copy info rapidly and accurately, the rules of many 
contests require that we send it.  You have decided to not follow these 
rules.

No problem - so long as your entry is submitted as a check log (or, less 
desirably, not at all).

Otherwise the Ch...er word can be applied to you.

Something you may not have thought about.  Let's say
a) You make 1200 Qs in a contest
b) It takes 1 second to send 5NN

Not sending 5NN saves you 1200 seconds or 20 minutes.  This gives you 20 
more minutes of contest time than anyone else.

In the case of a M/M making 6,000 Qs we're now up to 100 minutes of 
extra contest time.  That could easily translate into an extra 100 Qs.

I think one's competitors might object.  I know I would.


73, Jim	VE7FO

On 3/20/2013 11:50 AM, James Cain wrote:
> I got in the Wisconsin QSO Party a week ago last Sunday for my usual brief
foray, CW only, 3.5 hours, 350 QSOs. Great fun! Lots of OF friends called
in.
>
> The geniuses who run the WIQP -- none of them serious contesters --
specify the exchange as just location, no signal report. That really speeds
things up.
>
> So I have made a Command Decision here at the Battleship Wisconsin. I will
no longer send a signal report in any contest; I will send only whatever the
other element of the exchange is, the one that matters. You have been
warned.
>
> K1TN WI
> K1TN 04
> K1TN OCO