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

[G3VDB (Jim)]

Slightly off topic ...

The PSK community has tried to introduce RSQ with Quality 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
defined wrt the number and strength of spurious sidebands showing on the
waterfall, an indication of the orginator's (lack of) understanding of how
to drive a sideband transmitter with audio and maintain linearity.

Giving anything than 599 is usually a good way to have a very short QSO.
There are plenty of Q1 signals on the bands with a (PSK31) width of 200 -
300 Hz instead of < 50Hz and probably only just above 50 - 70% of sigs are
truly Q9.

Many have changed their macros from RST to RSQ and still programmed in 599.
[I did at first as I thought it was the done thing] My first 597 report
caused me to google RSQ, find the web-site, read the official definition and
re-evaluate my tx set up. So it can work.

See you (literally and hopefully, narrowly) in the Data CC next week :-))

Jim
G3VDB

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Andy Swiffin
Sent: 06 February 2009 09:22
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Fw: Redundant contest reports?(SSB CC(and
other80mcontests))


> 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 have given a very justified 395 in a contest - I expect it was logged as
599.....    

Right, expect real reports from me when I return to the CCs :-)

Andy
gm8oeg

(Bring back SINPO!)


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