[RTTY] Why send 599 report

[Peter Laws]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:36, William Smith <bill.n3xl at verizon.net> wrote:
> Russell,
> 599 is the content of the message. Nice to have SOMETHING in the message besides
> just a serial number, which can be considered as message originator's serial
> number. I agree that 599 is symbolic, as far as actual content goes. Our brief
> contest exchanges represent essential pieces of a formatted messages, as

I'm all for abolishing RST in contests but only if it's replaced with
something else.  I really like the ARRL Sweepstakes exchange.  One of
the BARTG test uses time, which I also like.



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