[Elecraft] 4W6A Video, count the K3's !

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Of course I thought it through Dave. In the video you'll hear the DX
operation say, "I gave him an 599 but he was an S1". 

My point was "why bother with a signal report at all if the station doesn't
ask for it". 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----

Have you guys actually thought this through??

In most cases, the DX is trying to work as many people as possible as 
fast as they can.  Giving you an "accurate" signal report requires them 
to decide how strong you are (takes a small amount of time) as well as 
manually type into the logger a different number than the default (takes 
a lot of time, relatively speaking, to tab and type).  Everyone else in 
the pileup is going to be glad you didn't get your "accurate" report.

As for that "accurate" report, in most cases you aren't going to have a 
clue what kind of antenna the DX is using or even what direction it may 
be pointing at the moment, so signal strength is utterly meaningless.  
The DX isn't "lying" about anything.  You are simply deluding yourself 
if you think their report means anything other than that you were 
strong/readable enough to get through the pileup, which you should have 
recognized by that point anyway.  If you want a number different than 
599, make up your own and log it ... it will easily have every bit as as 
much relevance under those conditions.

Dave   AB7E