RST report
The report describes how a station is coming in. In SSB only the first two digits are given, in CW all three.
- R1 bis R5
- Readability: 1 unreadable, 3 readable with difficulty, 5 perfectly readable
- S1 bis S9
- Signal strength: 1 barely perceptible, 5 fair, 9 very strong
- T1 bis T9
- Tone in CW: 9 pure tone, lower values hum or sound rough
- 59 / 599
- standard report, in contests often regardless of the actual signal
- S9 + 20 dB
- above S9 the count continues in decibels, one S unit is 6 dB
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