[RTTY] Why send 599 report

[Bill, W6WRT]

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:10:48 -0600, Peter Laws <plaws at plaws.net> wrote:

>1) Everyone's setup is different and 2) few radios follow the "Collins
>Standard" (50 uV at the antenna terminals) ... or any other standard!
>
>Even if everyone had similar stations and all RSSIs met some standard,
>you couldn't prove that the information was "wrong".  And what about
>the case where a signal *is* 599?

REPLY:

Any one report doesn't mean much, but if you consistently receive low
reports or high reports, you'd see a trend. And if the report really is
599, that's what goes in the log. Just don't enter nothing but 599's. 

73, Bill W6WRT