On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:46:11 GMT, "Ralph Mowery"
wrote:


defining the proper time-constant for ssb is another problem. My
activity has mainly been VHF/UHF cw and ssb, and working a few HF
contests on cw. Found that reporting and operational style is somewhat
different on HF and VHF. While the normal report on HF is 59 or 599,
it varies much more on VHF, and 519 report is not rare on VHF -
particularly if the OP has no experience from HF.
My favourite report is 559, because it is easy to send using elbug,
and it makes some fun, particularly when everybody expects to receive
a 599 report, so the opposite OP must make a note in his log that the
report wasn't the usual type, and somebody most likely may loose score

73
Jan-Martin, LA8AK

Now we are getting to my bands of operating. Instead of the RS(T) type of
reports grid squares are usually used on VHF. That eliminates the bogus 599
type of reports and while probably never used it will give a rough check to
see if you actually copied the call correct as the grids can be compaired to
the other stations that worked the same call
.


the most used report on this side would be 55A in JO38XC or if you
insist on the QTH-loc it is DS80B
Somebody ask for QRA, and I believe QRA means "name of the station"


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J. M. Noeding, LA8AK, N-4623 Kristiansand
http://home.online.no/~la8ak/c.htm