[RTTY] Why send 599 report

[W4LA at aol.com]

Good for you Glen.  Me too!
 
73's,
 
Todd / W4LA
 
 
In a message dated 1/13/2011 4:41:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
va3dx at sympatico.ca writes:

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.

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