[WT-support] WT and VHF and UP contests

[Adi S55M]

Bob 55S or 59S or 59A are standard raport for many many years used during
rain or snow or Aurora scattered contacts on VHF and UP. Rules for such
contests are general rules for IARU R1 VHF and UP contest.

In CW and SSB the raport is the same. (In SSB the S means that modulation is
scattered but signal and intelligibility of signal is perfect. During CW
contact there is normally no tone (perfect inline scatter is exception) so
instead of T in raport there are S for rain or snow scatter or A for Aurora
scatter. Yes, it is anomaly, because raports in SSB and CW have both three
fields.

But with no desire to change anything from the SW writer for VHF contest
community (EDI format correction wich has no MODE in the fields) i gived up
from using it for VHF to SHF work (For HF this is superb SW however). We do
not use cabrillo in IARU R1 for VHF and UP contest. We have EDI standard
recomended by IARU R1.

Karel, i gived UP long time ago with Wintest for VHF :-). But maybe if we
are persistant, something will grow from our seeds.

 

GL in 2011 VHF-UHF-SHF contest season

 

S55M

Adi Voh

ZRS VHF manager

 

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From: support-bounces at f5mzn.org [mailto:support-bounces at f5mzn.org] On Behalf
Of Bob Wilson, N6TV
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:17 AM
To: support at win-test.com; odehnk at seznam.cz
Subject: Re: [WT-support] WT and VHF and UP contests

 

If you press the tab key, you can type 59A or 59S in the sent exchange field
(except for CW mode).

 

I don't see any way to enter these values in the received exchange field,
but I don't even know how to find the rules for this contest so I'm not sure
what a typical received exchange might be, or if there is room to fit an
extra letter and fix the Cabrillo file afterwards with Notepad.

 

73,

Bob, N6TV

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Karel Odehnal <odehnk at seznam.cz> wrote:

Hello all,

I am trying the Win-test for European V-U-SHF contests.
I have problem with logging a report like 59S or 59A . Those reports are
used during Rainscatter or Aurora propagations and must be logged correctly.

How to do it? Is there anybody who knows it?

TNX and 73! Karel OK2ZI


This is the part from the IARU Region I. VHF managers handbook
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8.8.7 IARU Region 1 Technical Recommendation TONE REPORTS
Vienna 2010

TONE REPORTS
In order to give an indication of distorted tonal quality due to special
propagation modes, the 1-9 scale of
the Tonality (T) component of the RST reporting system will be extended with
the following:

"a" For signals distorted by auroral propagation
"s" For signals distorted by scatter propagation mechanisms
"m" for signals distorted by multipath propagation.

For example:-
599 - Good signal
58a - Fairly good Signal via Aurora
59s - Good signal via Scatter (e.g. Rainscatter)

Footnotes
1. Other letters may be defined in future should the need arise
2. This alternative system may be used for any mode e.g. CW, SSB, MGM etc



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