[RTTY] SCC RTTY Championship - band change rule

[Bill Turner]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:57:15 +0200, Robert Bajuk wrote:

>If I got my first ham license in 1987 I'll send 599 1987 
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Changing the subject slightly, wouldn't it be a good idea to eliminate
the RST from contests?  Not just SCC, but all of them.  Either that, or
require a true RST report?

A few contests already do this and it doesn't seem to hurt anything.
I'm just puzzled why contest sponsors continue to require such a
meaningless transmission.  I'd guess back in the early days of
contesting, most folks did send actual reports but they gradually came
to realize that 599 was easier at both ends.

Not a big deal, of course, just one of those things I wonder about from
time to time.

Comments, anyone?

73, Bill W7TI