Tom Sherren wrote:
In article , ai8o wrote:
Radio Bulgaria 5900 KHz 0230 December 9, 2010 UTC.
French in progress,at 0230.
0300z English.
News in EE at 0300z
SINPO 3-3-3-2-2
abrupt s-off at 0400z.

Great! What's your location

How do you get a 2 overall out of 3[]3s and 2[]2s?

dave wrote:

Tom Sherren wrote:
In article , ai8o wrote:
Radio Bulgaria 5900 KHz 0230 December 9, 2010 UTC.
French in progress,at 0230.
0300z English.
News in EE at 0300z
SINPO 3-3-3-2-2
abrupt s-off at 0400z.

Great! What's your location

How do you get a 2 overall out of 3[]3s and 2[]2s?

Come on Dave... you know darn well that ever since the code requirement was dropped everything is just made up.

On Dec 9, 3:16*pm, dave wrote:
Tom Sherren wrote:
In article , ai8o wrote:
- - - Radio Bulgaria 5900 KHz 0230 December 9, 2010 UTC.
- - - French in progress,at 0230.
- - - 0300z English.
- - - News in EE at 0300z
- - - SINPO 3-3-3-2-2
- - - abrupt s-off at 0400z.

- - Great!
- - What's your location

- How do you get a 2 overall out of 3[]3s and 2[]2s?

Dave, Let see . . .
SINPO 3-3-3-2-2 is a subjective-assessment*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SINPO

* -wrt- as best as they could 'guess'
given what they heard at the moment
and what the sinpo written criteria is . . .

The Backward Secret to the "SIO Code"
for Shortwave Radio Reception Reports
http://groups.google.com/group/short...4fa8b936d5b207

Rick Wiegmann - Koshko's SINPO Code Explanation
http://www.koshko.com/radio/sinpo.shtml

What is SINPO ? & SIO ? (Shortwave Radio)
http://stason.org/TULARC/radio/short...ave-radio.html

The SINPO Report
(Signal, Interference, Noise, Propagation, Overall)
http://www.giangrandi.ch/electronics...s/reports.html

For Shortwave Radio Listeners [SWLs]
The Simpler SIO Code is recommended :
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/radio/monit...shortwave-faq/

1st - The SIO Code Deletes the Extremes Ratings
of 1 and 5 and simply uses the 4 & 3 & 2 Ratings

2nd - The SIO Code Eliminated both the Noise and
Propagation Categories.

-hence- SINPO becomes SIO
[ S+I+N+P+O S+I+O ]

THE SIMPLER "S I O" CODE :

"S" = Signal
4 ~ Good to Great to Excellent !
3 ~ Fair to OK Average to Listenable
2 ~ Poor to Weak to Hard-to-Hear

"I" = Interference
4 ~ Slight to None
3 ~ Moderate to Some but Listenable
2 ~ Severe to A Lot to Bad to Hard-to-Hear

"O" = Overall
4 ~ Good to Great to Excellent !
3 ~ Fair to OK Average to Listenable
2 ~ Poor to Weak to Hard-to-Hear