Hi Chris, I wondered about that some time ago, but the answer seems to be,
"dont be hung up on courtesy" ...send a call slightly off frequency so you
dont clash with possible DX answer. The sending station will probably see it
as well and any station he is working and you save a whole over by not
requiring the preliminaries. There was a period when it was suggested that
CQ was a bit long and "?" was adequate but that fell from use.
Cheers de Alan G3NYK
----- Original Message -----
From: "OSBORN, Chris" <[email protected]>
To: "LF Group (E-mail)" <[email protected]>
Sent: 11 February 2005 08:52
Subject: LF: QRSS - KN ?
LF Group
Just a thought - having used QRSS-3 for a few weeks I notice that K
is used exclusively and KN not at all.
I often catch the end of a transmission and consequently cannot tell
whether the station is sending CQ or already in a QSO.
I therefore have to wait several minutes to see whether the station
repeats a CQ before replying.
Is there not a case for using KN if passing transmission to a
specific station, as in normal CW ?
The additional time in sending the N is surely well worth removing
the ambiguity of the situation.
73 Chris G3XIZ
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