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RSQ REPORTING
 
For digital modes the traditional method of RST does not really work.
  • R: Readability
    1. Unreadable
    2. Barely readable, occasional words distinguishable
    3. Readable with considerable difficulty
    4. Readable with practically no difficulty
    5. Perfectly readable
  • S: Signal Strength
    1. Faint signals, barely perceptible
    2. Very weak signals
    3. Weak signals
    4. Fair signals
    5. Fairly good signals
    6. Good signals
    7. Moderately strong signals
    8. Strong signals
    9. Extremely strong signals
  • T: Tone (for digital there is no Tone)
    1. Sixty cycle AC or less, very rough and broad
    2. Very rough AC, very harsh and broad
    3. Rough AC tone, rectified but not filtered
    4. Rough note, some trace of filtering
    5. Filtered rectified ac, but strongly ripple modulated
    6. Filtered tone, definite trace of ripple modulation
    7. Near pure tone, trace of ripple modulation
    8. Near perfect tone, slight trac of modulation
    9. Perfect tone, no trace of ripple, or modulation of any kind
With the Digital modes espically BPSK and QPSK the RSQ system is better
  • R: Readabiltiy
    1. 0% undecipherable
    2. 20% occasional words distinguishable
    3. 40% considerable difficulty, many missed characters
    4. 80% practically no difficulty, occasional missed characters
    5. 95%+ perfectly readable
  • S: Strength
    1. Barely perciptible trace
    2. not used
    3. Weak trace
    4. not used
    5. Moderate trace
    6. not used
    7. Strong trace
    8. not used
    9. Very strong trace
  • Q: Quality
    1. Splatter over much of the visible waterfall
    2. not used
    3. Multiple visible pairs
    4. not used
    5. One easily visible pair
    6. not used
    7. One barely visible pair
    8. not used
    9. Clean signal - no visible unwanted sidebar pair
For more info on RSQ and why RST does not work on Digital please visit http://www.rsq-info.net/