25-03-2018, 10:41 PM
Aha! the old signal report trickaroo...
Actually the ARRL do not require a signal report for a valid dxcc contact.
They require "the exchange of previously unknown information"
So when i am working a bloke in e.g scotland, i can tell him i had walnuts for breakfast and he tells me that the battery on his mercedes just died, we have a valid contact and qso exchange for dxcc arrl purposes.
I got this info from the horses mouth in arrl a few years ago.
I use 100% paper logbooks, [have 49 of them] so its easy to write "mercedes battery just died"
Some contests may actually require a numerical report? i dont actually enter contests, just snoop for new ones etc and i give "real" reports.
However i always give a genuine "guess meter" report and it is amazing that in 99% of cases the bloke at the other end thinks he is 59... his ears are tuned to 59 or 599.
Sometimes i will tell him he is 50uV if he is 9 on the guess meter...
Good fun all round
vk6ro
e&oe
Actually the ARRL do not require a signal report for a valid dxcc contact.
They require "the exchange of previously unknown information"
So when i am working a bloke in e.g scotland, i can tell him i had walnuts for breakfast and he tells me that the battery on his mercedes just died, we have a valid contact and qso exchange for dxcc arrl purposes.
I got this info from the horses mouth in arrl a few years ago.
I use 100% paper logbooks, [have 49 of them] so its easy to write "mercedes battery just died"
Some contests may actually require a numerical report? i dont actually enter contests, just snoop for new ones etc and i give "real" reports.
However i always give a genuine "guess meter" report and it is amazing that in 99% of cases the bloke at the other end thinks he is 59... his ears are tuned to 59 or 599.
Sometimes i will tell him he is 50uV if he is 9 on the guess meter...
Good fun all round
vk6ro
e&oe