Meaning of the acronym Rst

[VE2ESF]

Hello to all,

This should be a very simple question to answer... In the Recent QSO's page, data is split in columns. Two of those columns use the term Rst as in Rst Sent and Rst Rcvd (received). What is the meaning of the Rst acronym ? I've looked in the user's manual and forum on this subject but could not find anything.

Thanks for the help,

Roger
VE2ESF

[KI5IO]

Roger,

A WWW search will provide many sites with the basics.

Here is a link to a WIKI about RST: https://wiki2.org/en/R-S-T_system

[VE2ESF]

Thank you Nolan.

Your explanations are very clear about the signification of the RST acromym. Though, I'm a bit confused about why Log4OM uses the Rst term for this information since it's limited to the the strength of the signal only (Sent and Received) and not about the Readability and Tone.

Wouldn't a title Signal Strength (SS) been a better choice for this data ?

Roger
VE2ESF

[KI5IO]

Roger,

The accepted standard is RST and has been for many, many years. I'm not aware of any logging program that does not utilize the RST system for logging, albeit there might be one/two somewhere.

Making arbitrary changes to such would be a many years effort if at all.

First one would have to assemble an consensus of like minds to submit proposals for such a change. Then it would take, Lord knows how long, to agree on a format and then go on from there.

Here are a couple more links relating to RST.

Scroll down to section about RST: https://www.hamradiosecrets.com/ham-rad ... -sign.html

Scroll to Page 23 in this PDF (Ethics & Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur:

https://www.hamradiosecrets.com/support ... r-2011.pdf

[G4POP]

RST becomes more meaningful when you use CW - Readability, strength and tone!

Readability - could be impaired by a bad operator with low skills or QRM/QRN

Strength - How loud the signal is, could be strong but not readable

Tone - means what it says is the tone good or bad

[ei6kw]

Sorry, likely I should be silent, but I can't stop myself.
Is the state exam in Canada that easy or are you kidding?

[G4POP]

Sorry, likely I should be silent, but I can't stop myself.
Is the state exam in Canada that easy or are you kidding?

Although the QRZ profile would indicate otherwise it needed to be treated as a serious question but I was also surprised!

[VE2ESF]

I'm sorry if my question might had offended some of you, this was not my intention.

And yes, there is a Federal exam to obtain you HAM license in Canada and the RST was covered in the training course. But you may also remember that my question was about a title column in the Log4OM software. I may be a purist but RST (Readability, strength and tone) and signal strength are not the same thus my question and subsequent intervention.

Please note that I'm a HAM radio operator of less that 2 years old and in these times (the COVID pandemic) of very limited or non existent meetings between other HAM operators, it is difficult to gain easily information in this field without collective knowledge. And yes, I may still be a long way to have your field experience in the matter but my intervention has the value of trying to understand the tools that I'm using and asking questions about it.

I've learned that over the years, there are no bad or wrong questions and that you got smarter by asking them and reaching to the HAM community.


Cordially,

Roger
VE2ESF

[KI5IO]

Roger,

As you noted ... questions are the best at any/all endeavors. While growing up on a farm in NE Montana (many long years ago), my Dad told me to "never, ever" stop learning. I continue that to this day (now long retired) and aim to learn something new each/every day. That approach has served me well.

As for L4OM V2 when it comes to column labels in the grids ... you can use or not use any or all of the columns. You can also change the display label to suit your needs/usage as you see fit.

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[VE2ESF]

Thank you all four your comments and help in the matter. I appreciated all of them.

Cordially,


Roger
VE2ESF