[UK-CONTEST] 59 reports on VHF

[John Lemay]

I take a rather simple view (as usual):-

If I send someone a 5 and 2 report, it's my cue to the other station to give
me his details slowly and clearly more that once. If I send 5 and 9 I am
indicating that he's loud and clear and I do not want to receive all the
information many times with as many different versions of the phonetic
alphabet ...........

Regards

John G4ZTR

-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Andy GD0TEP
Sent: 05 May 2010 09:33
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 59 reports on VHF

>>It may have been that way when  you and I were a lot younger, 
>>and before computer logging became the norm -  but those days are long
gone.

I disagree!

>>Well, as I said, either you're "in" the contest or  you're not.  It you
want to win, 
>>you make the exchange as  simple and as consistent as possible within the
rules.
>>Anything else  is likely to slow the QSO rate.  I expect this applies to
VHF  contesting also.

As we're talking about 59 reports on VHF, once again I disagree!

>From 1997 to 2008 the Northern Lights contest group (a mix of
MD6V/MD8V/MD0V) won the RSGB 50mhz trophy contest TEN times, with two near
misses. There's also a few concurrent IARU wins in that list as well. Each
contest was complete with real reports given out, so again, I say that
giving out a real report DOES NOT affect the QSO rate.

But then perhaps the whole ethos of VHF operating in general is some what
different to HF...


73,
Andy
http://gd0tep.com






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