Topband: Why not add power class to SP TBDC exchange?

[VE2TZT]

> For the life of me I don't understand why contesters don't send the
> actual RST. The purpose of a QSO is to extablish 2 way
> communications and one way to verify this is to exchange some basic
> information.

1) Because what you are discribing is exactly what you can do everyday, all
the year, during common QSO's, outside contest events.

2) the more information needed, the less number of difficult (limit of
noise) contacts you will complete = the less number of qrp stations you will
work...

Gilles