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From: "Rik Strobbe" <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be>
Subject: Re: LF: QRSS operating procedure
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At 11:28 21/01/00 +0000, M0BMU wrote:
>Dear LF group,
>	I am almost ready to go with QRSS; however I have not seen a 
>complete QRSS QSO yet, so I would appreciate some operating 
>procedure guidelines from the regular users of this mode, before 
>taking the plunge.

Operating QRSS is rather simple, just a few 'specialities' :

- QRSS segment (inofficial) is 137600 - 137800, most activity is between
  137700 and 137750
- keep your CQ's short : 
  eg. CQ M0BMU K  not  CQ CQ CQ M0BMU M0BMU M0BMU PSE K
- report system is the TMO system :
  T = signal traces seen but not good enough for a QSO
  M = weak signal but good enough for a QSO
  O = perfect copy

some practical tips :
- during a QSO (once you are sure that both stations have the calls OK) you
can use the suffixes instead of complete calls
- if you see the end of a QSO and you want to contact one of the stations
you can start calling this station while is previous QSO is going on, just
call on another frequency.
- if replying to a CQ it is good to call NOT exactly on the caller's
frequency, this will avoid QRM in case more than 1 station is responding.

Good luck with QRSS

Rik  ON7YD