There you go again, trying to increase macro length and waste
time. 4 numbers for time for instance, versus only 3 for RST. I
will leave it to Bill to calculate how many minutes would be wasted
over an entire contest if we were to switch from RST to a time exchange... :-|
At 05:48 PM 1/13/2011, Peter Laws wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:36, William Smith <bill.n3xl@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Russell,
> > 599 is the content of the message. Nice to have SOMETHING in the
> message besides
> > just a serial number, which can be considered as message
> originator's serial
> > number. I agree that 599 is symbolic, as far as actual content
> goes. Our brief
> > contest exchanges represent essential pieces of a formatted messages, as
>
>I'm all for abolishing RST in contests but only if it's replaced with
>something else. I really like the ARRL Sweepstakes exchange. One of
>the BARTG test uses time, which I also like.
>
>
>
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