[TenTec] Signal reporting

[gjn]

>When I get a 599 report I know that I can happily proceed with a good speed 
and try to increase to 30-35 wpm. If I get 228 I know that I will not 
have a chance to be read unless I reduce the speed considerably. (Sorry 
not to keep to TT technicalities, but I run TT eq.)
73 - OZ6NF/Gunner


>I want an honest signal report from the other person because I want to know
>how my equipment and antenna(s) are doing.  If I'm a 228 don't be afraid to
>tell me.  If I'm truly sounding like one of the strongest signals on the
>band (a 599) let me know that too.  How else can you get an idea of how well
>your signal is doing in a particular area?  If I'm giving a report I compare
>the subject signal to others on the band and rate it accordingly.  If I
>plotted the types of reports I have given versus the quantity of each it
>would pretty much be a Gaussian distribution.
>
>I don't rely on an 'S' meter.  I find them to be more of an aesthetics
>pleaser than a trusted functional item.  However, I do like what
>Watkins-Johnson does and that is to report the strength of the signal at the
>antenna input.
>
>I have never been a contester but I always found it curious that on the day
>of the contest everyone seems to be using 10KW to a 10 element beam on a 110
>foot tower and propagation has achieved perfection.  Why else would everyone
>be giving and getting a 599 signal report? :)
>
>Reid, K7YX
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: 	Carl Hyde [mailto:cshyde@yahoo.com] 
>Sent:	Thursday, November 18, 1999 10:27 AM
>To:	tentec@contesting.com
>Subject:	Re: [TenTec] TenTec RX-320 S-meter reply.
>
>
>Just to make people like Jeff happy I always give a 59
>signal report no matter what the signal report may be.
>I figure if I can hear and understand the other
>operator why try to figure out some arbitrary scale of
>subjective ear calibration anyway. Besides I like the
>DX operators to thank me for a nice signal report, as
>if I had anything to do with it to begin with. IT
>makes me feel like I have been a positive influence in
>their life.  I wouldn't want anyone to get a case of
>depression and commit suicide because I gave them a
>4x2 signal report.  I can see it now on CNN "Ham
>operator kills himself over a bad signal report".  I
>can't bear the thought of that happening so all you'll
>get from me is a 5X9.  Before contests I just read the
>5x9 report into my speech unit and it does the QSOs
>for me and I don't even have to talk to another ham at
>all. I just sit there sipping a cold beer and push the
>buttons on the speech box.  Probably by next year I'll
>have this speech recognition development board figured
>out and I intend to have my computer tune the bands
>with the Pegasus, recognize a "CQ Contest" call, and
>reply with my callsign, a 59 and a number and log the
>contact. That way I can enter contests automatically
>and I don't even have to be home in the radio room to
>win them. I can set up an entire year's worth of
>contests in advance.  Now thats Ham radio!!! I'll just
>have the computer email the completed log at the end
>of each contest and I don't even have to get involved
>with the contest at all. I'm going to call it RoboHam.
>So 5nines and 73s to all and to all a good night!
>
>
>> > The thing that burns me about 'S' meters is the
>> trend for hams to use
>> > S-units for their signal report numbers "5x9 +10"
>> what the hell is that?
>
>
>=====
>Carl S.HYDE
>W2CSH
>cshyde@yahoo.com
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