[UK-CONTEST] 59 reports on VHF

[Alex GM3ZBE]

If everybody is putting the same 59(9) in the log how does that prove 
you copied anybody? Or didn't guess the callsign or serial.  I don't 
follow you?

David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
> I wasn't suggesting you did :-)
>
> Science is a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. -Carl Sagan, 1934 - 1996
>
> On 4 May 2010, at 14:16, Alex GM3ZBE wrote:
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>> I didn't say we could omit the serial number just the rst 59(9) bit!
>> Alex
>>
>> David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
>>     
>>> Except that it does prove you could hear them and that you didn't guess the callsign and that you didn't listen to the previous serial number to guess that. It just makes the exchange a bit longer.
>>>
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Alex, GM3ZBE ~~~~ Kingdom of Fife ~~~ IO86lf ~~~
Member of:
De Montfort University ARS,
Kingdom Amateur Radio Society (KARS)
GMDX Group, CDXC, Aberdeen ARS
Previous callsigns GM8BYG, G3ZBE
Holder of GM4BRN club call.
 
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