[UK-CONTEST] Redundant contest reports? (SSB CC (and other80mcontests))

[Pete Lindsay]

"59(9) no longer has any meaning, significance or value.  It
is a legacy of contesting from the last millennium :-)  It is
redundant."

That isn't true in VHF contesting, where sending "59" repeatedly over
and over to get through to the guy who you can only just hear over the
noise doesn't happen :-)


Pete, G4CLA.

2009/2/5 Paul O'Kane <pokane at ei5di.com>:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
>
> <snip>
>
>> It is very obvious that in the 1970s virtually everybody sent
>> real RSTs in contests. I have not yet noticed when this stopped,
>
> Signal reports are entirely subjective - the only ones with
> any validity are comparative ones.  Reports stopped varying
> some 30 years ago - especially in the major contests.
>
> The final nail in the coffin was due to CT, the first major
> contest logger in the late 1980s.  CT had no provision for
> logging anything other than 59(9) for RST Sent.  You could
> send something (on-air) other than 59(9) but you couldn't
> log it.  Of course, it did allow variable RST Received to
> be logged.
>
> 59(9) no longer has any meaning, significance or value.  It
> is a legacy of contesting from the last millennium :-)  It is
> redundant.
>
>> I thought at one time it was a requirement for DXCC for RST
>> to be exchanged (and greater than something like 45/459) for
>> it to be a valid QSO for the purpose
>
> Most of us thought the same - we were all mistaken.  No
> signal reports of any kind are needed on QSLs for any ARRL
> award, including DXCC.
>
>> The other thing which struck me going through my old logs
>> was how many contests there were in those days
>
> Yes, and nearly every day was sunny :-)  There are more
> contests than ever these days.  Here are some this weekend,
> all on HF, and all open to UK contesters.
>
>   WW-PMC Contest
>   Black Sea Cup International
>   AGCW-DL Straight Key Party
>   North American CW Sprint
>   Vermont QSO Party
>   Minnesota QSO Party
>   British Colombia QSO Challenge
>   Delaware QSO Party
>   New Mexico QSO Party
>   Ten-Ten International Winter Contest
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
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