[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net cancellation

[Paul VanOveren]

Does it really matter if the report is 559 or 599, the important part is 
that you get the call sign CORRECT and the zone, country, serial # or 
power. That is what the contest managers require, that you can copy all the 
information correctly.  As mentioned earlier, the 599 is more or less a 
preamble to getting the power, country, or serial number, which is the 
important part of the exchange in addition to the call sign. I could care 
less, even during a non-contest qso what report the other station gives me 
for a report, if he gets my call sign correct and maybe my name and qth, I 
don't give a rip what his S meter reads.. What I do not understand is the 
stations that run at 50+ wpm. Many of us that run at 25-30 wpm simply bypass 
them and go on to someone we can copy on the first time. I guess that there 
are the "top notch" ops that can copy at 50+ but eventually they are going 
to have worked all/most of them and my thinking is that perhaps they might 
work more stations by slowing down a bit..YOMV.

Paul   NF8J

Why be upset with a 599? Because of that very same variability; it is highly 
unlikely that you will have exactly the same propagation to different parts 
of the world at the same time, so why should you accept the same report from 
all contacts without question?

Matthew Pitts
N8OHU


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