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On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 02:56:53 -0700 (PDT), Ev Tupis <w2ev@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>We only have ourselves to blame for turning the RST into a synch pulse instead
>of anything useful. I have been going over my old contest logs from the '60s
>and '70s and find the RST reports were "honest" reports, not an endless column
>of 599's.
<snip>
><humor>
>PS: Now that I'm thinking about it, I can imagine having a little more fun by
>giving the big gun's reports like "229" as a sort of "Revenge of the Little
>Pistol's", knowing that it breaks nothing, except for the monotony between S&P
>operations for us. <g>
></humor>
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Perhaps your second paragraph explains the reasoning behind your first
paragraph.
I greatly prefer the "endless column of 599's" over an "honest
report". Even more, I prefer contests that do not require a signal
report at all, honest or otherwise.
Bill W6WRT
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