<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"><title>RST-RSQ</title></head><body style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);" alink="#000099" link="#000099" vlink="#990099"><h1>RST & RSQ Reporting</h1><h3>RST</h3>Is the traditional Readability, Strength, Tone reporting system used for CW operations for nearly as long as amateurs have enjoyed the airwaves.<br><br><table style="text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">READABILITY</span></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><ol><li>Unreadable</li><li>Barely readable, occasional words distinguishable</li><li>Readable with considerable difficulty</li><li>Readable with practically no difficulty</li><li>Perfectly readable (that is 100% print in todays jargon)</li></ol></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">SIGNAL STRENGTH</span></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><ol><li>Faint signals, barely perceptible</li><li>Very weak signals</li><li>Weak signals</li><li>Fair signals</li><li>Fairly good signals</li><li>Good signals</li><li>Moderately strong signals</li><li>Strong signals</li><li>Extremely strong signals</li></ol></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">TONE</span></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top;"><ol><li>Sixty cicle ac or less, very rough and broad</li><li>Very rough ac, very harsh and broad</li><li>Rough ac tone, rectified but not filtered</li><li>Rough note, some trace of filtering</li><li>Filtered rectified ac, but strongly ripple modulated</li><li>Filtered tone, definite trace of ripple modulation</li><li>Near pure tone, trace of ripple modulation</li><li>Near perfect tone, slight trac of modulation</li><li>Perfect tone, no trace of ripple, or modulation of any kind</li></ol></td></tr></tbody></table><br><h3>RSQ</h3> <br>Give the report as RSQ for digiital modes, but especially BPSK and QPSK; see: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.psb-info.net/RSQ-Reporting-Table.html">http://www.psb-info.net/RSQ-Reporting-Table.html</a><br><br><table style="text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">READABILITY</span></td></tr><tr><td><div style="margin-left: 40px;">1. 0% undecipherable<br>2. 20% occassional words distinguishable<br>3. 40% consideralbe difficulty, many missed characters<br>4. 80% practically no difficyulty, occasional missed characters<br>5. 95%+ perfectly readable</div></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">STRENGTH</span></td></tr><tr><td><div style="margin-left: 40px;">1. Barely perciptible trace<br>2. Weak trace<br>3. Moderate trace<br>4. Strong trace<br>5. Very strong trace</div></td></tr><tr><td><span style="font-weight: bold;">QUALITY</span></td></tr><tr><td><div style="margin-left: 40px;">1. Splatter over much of the visible waterfall<br>3. Multiple visible pairs<br>5. One easily visible pair<br>7. One barely visible pair<br>9. Clean signal - no visible unwanted sidebar pairs</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br></body></html>
