only contest I get in to is field day, and it's not just the contesting side 
of it I like, I like the talking to people and honestly, could be happy to 
not get on the air though I like the late night hours on 40 and 80.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: signal report, a bit of a rant


> Hi.
>
> Here I go getting inflamatory.  Contesting is trivial, in my view.  What's
> the point in my sitting there for hours doing what you could program a
> computer or a robot to do?  I'd like to put a little more of my 
> personality
> into my communications than that.  Not that I would deny anyone their 
> right
> to sit there and do that, but if I found myself sitting there for hours on
> end conducting myself like the sample in Ron's message, I would hope
> someone would come along and slap me upside the head and tell me to get a 
> life!
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 03:24 PM 6/19/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi List,
>>
>>Well, don't get me started on this 5/9 business.  How many contests have
>>each of you listened to and some DX station or maybe a state side station 
>>is
>>doing the following:
>>
>>W2XXX QRZ
>>W2XXX from w4XXX 5/9
>>W4XXX from W2XXX 5/9
>>W4XXX QRZ
>>W4XXX from W9XXX 5/9
>>W9XXX from W4XXX 5/9
>>W4XXX QRZ
>>W4XXX from W8XXX 5/9
>>W8XXX from W4XXX 5/9.
>>
>>You listen to this for about an hour solid and every signal report both 
>>ways
>>is 5/9.  This contesting technique of saying as little as you can so as to
>>'pile up the points' trivializes the whole idea of giving any kind of 
>>signal
>>report--which should be something we concern ourselves with--since
>>contesting is actually supposed to be a type of training for handling
>>emergency traffic.
>>
>>I could go on about this for a while, but I'll close by saying that if one
>>gives a signal report, it should be legitimate, not just a formality as 
>>in:
>>
>>Hi Joe; how are you?
>>fine; and you?
>>fine.
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Richard Webb" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 5:52 PM
>>Subject: signal report, a bit of a rant
>>
>>
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>THe question of whether or not the speech synthesizer in the
>>op's rig could read out signal reports such as five nine
>>etc. got me thinking about this, and it's one of my pet
>>peeves.
>>
>>THere is a reason that the rst system, that's r s and t as
>>in romeo sierra tango for those of you who's speech synths
>>don't do kind things to it) is shorthand for readability,
>>strength and tone.
>>SO to answer the op's question, nope your speech synth in
>>your radio can't do that.  ONly you can judge readability,
>>and tone for a cw signal.  nOW comes the rant part.
>>
>>I work a lot of guys on the paper chasing frequencies who
>>never give anybody a readability lesss than five unless the
>>signal is almost too weak tohear.  I"ll hear a station with
>>rf feedback up the wazoo and some guy gives him a five nine.
>>WHat's with that?  HE sounds like something the dog left in
>>the yard and this dude gives him a 59 report.
>>
>>HOnest signal reporting is a proud part of the ham radio
>>tradition.  WE should educate ourselves about what poor
>>signals indicate about the state of the transmitter in
>>question.  GIving honest reports that clue the operator on
>>the other end in about problems is part of what being a good
>>operator is about.
>>
>>73 de nf5b
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Richard Webb,
>>Electric Spider Productions,
>>Eads Tn.
>>
>>
>>Braille:  support true literacy for the blind.
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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