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

[David Honey]

At 14:06 2009-02-05, you wrote:
>I no longer see RST as being useful in contests. Even in normal DXing
>with a huge pile up how many give anything other than 59(9)? Very very
>few. I have never heard a T report less than 9.

Outside of contests and DXpeditions, I do like to give meaningful tone reports.
Worst I have given is a 5 - pretty raspy note and then told the op 
his power supply needed better smoothing. Plus I logged it in my PC 
logger like that with a side note just in case I got a QSL card - it 
would remind me to make a comment on the reply card!

I also add a C suffix if they have significant chirp, or D if it drifts a lot.
I don't recall ever having to use C and D in combination. :-)

In DXepeditions, I like to give a meaningful RST. If they really log 
it, then it might help them understand how good the paths are at 
different times of day. However, I suspect that all will get buried 
in a sea of 59/599 reports.

vy 73 de David M0DHO