[RTTY] RST in contests

[Don Hill AA5AU]

It's possible that people chose the wrong contest in their logging program and used the BARTG Sprint contest instead which does not
require RST.  Maybe that's why you saw a higher than normal frequency of no RST in the exchange. 


73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill, W6WRT
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 9:45 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] RST in contests

In yesterday's BARTG contest there seemed to be an unusually large number of stations who did not send an RST in their exchange.
Often there will be one, maybe two, but yesterday there were six or seven. 

Since I was not making a serious, all-out effort in the contest I decided to let it go and just log what they sent and assume 599.
I'm starting to think that was the wrong thing to do. 

Frankly, I would like to see the signal report eliminated from all RTTY contests, but as long as it is in the rules, the rules
should be obeyed.
As others have pointed out, RST does serve some purpose in CW and SSB contests by way of setting the tone and rhythm for what
follows, but in RTTY that is not relevant. 

For the next contest I am going to create a macro that says RST? RST? and send it when needed.

What do you folks think?

73, Bill W6WRT
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