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Re: [RTTY] RST in contests

To: <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>, <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] RST in contests
From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:14:25 -0500
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It's possible that people chose the wrong contest in their logging program and 
used the BARTG Sprint contest instead which does not
require RST.  Maybe that's why you saw a higher than normal frequency of no RST 
in the exchange. 


73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On 
Behalf Of Bill, W6WRT
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 9:45 AM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] RST in contests

In yesterday's BARTG contest there seemed to be an unusually large number of 
stations who did not send an RST in their exchange.
Often there will be one, maybe two, but yesterday there were six or seven. 

Since I was not making a serious, all-out effort in the contest I decided to 
let it go and just log what they sent and assume 599.
I'm starting to think that was the wrong thing to do. 

Frankly, I would like to see the signal report eliminated from all RTTY 
contests, but as long as it is in the rules, the rules
should be obeyed.
As others have pointed out, RST does serve some purpose in CW and SSB contests 
by way of setting the tone and rhythm for what
follows, but in RTTY that is not relevant. 

For the next contest I am going to create a macro that says RST? RST? and send 
it when needed.

What do you folks think?

73, Bill W6WRT
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