[RTTY] Why send 599 report

[Glenn Wyant]

Same old stuff , over and over again.
After every contest the same folks want to change
the rules in some way.
I just operate the contest according to the sponsers rules,
and have fun.

Glenn VA3DX

Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Why send 599 report


> There you go again, trying to increase macro length and waste
> time.  4 numbers for time for instance, versus only 3 for RST.  I
> will leave it to Bill to calculate how many minutes would be wasted
> over an entire contest if we were to switch from RST to a time exchange... 
> :-|
>
> At 05:48 PM 1/13/2011, Peter Laws wrote:
>>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.