[UK-CONTEST] UBN failures

[Rob Harrison]

I'll second that, apart from the callsign the one thing that's unique in the 
over, and makes the QSO valid. To default to is just laziness and a ploy to 
make more meaningless cntacts, mainly in contests. Ban it now.

Bob G8HGN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Selwood" <g3ydy at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "'David G3YYD'" <g3yyd at btinternet.com>; <UK-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UBN failures


>
> Better still remove the auto 59 from all software
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of David G3YYD
> Sent: 16 July 2011 10:44
> To: UK-Contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UBN failures
>
> The obvious conclusion is always give 59 as the report then no problem.
>
> 73 David
>
> On 16/07/2011 08:16, Roger Thawley wrote:
>> I see an interesting trend within UBN reports received by M0GVG. A
>> number of failed contacts are due to broken reports and, in almost
>> every case, we have logged that the other station has given us a
>> report other than '59' but the other stations have all logged that they
> have given us a '59' report.
>> Typically, the report we have logged is similar to the report we have
>> sent, perhaps suggesting that both the logged reports are correct. I'm
>> left wondering if the other stations logging software is automatically
>> inserting '59' and if the other operators are failing to replace this
>> with the 'actual' report they sent.
>>
>>
>>
>> Roger, G0BSU (M0GVG/P)
>>
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