[Boatanchors] Why The Letter "Q" And Who Invented The Code?

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Well, I used "break" long before 11M Citizen's band was born.
Way back when you could work Europe on 75M late at night.
CB'ers just ruined it with their "breaker, breaker" language as
well as throwing in some vulgor speech.

Some say it is not courteous, others accept it.  It is merely a means
to break into a conversation.  "Contact", we have used on nets to allow
a station not currently on the role order to QSO another station.

Even use "hello", if know the group, but all are not "legal", you should
probably just use your call -this is K0EQH-

Rod
K0EQH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: "Jim Wilhite" <w5jo at brightok.net>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Why The Letter "Q" And Who Invented The Code?


> Hi Jim,
>
> Which raises another somewhat related question.
>
> Suppose a QSO between two or more Hams is in progress. Suppose a new
arrival
> on the frequency wants to get a station signal/audio report. How is he/she
> supposed to make contact? Does he/she say "Contact", or "Break", just give
> his/her call sign or?
>
> Some say that "Contact" is only used when the new party desires to make
> contact with a specific station among those having the ongoing QSO. Others
> say that "Break" is a Citizens Band term, which is true, and is not to be
> used on Ham Radio. Not that it is illegal, just not proper Ham
termonology.
> Then others say it is proper to simply give your call sign over the air
and
> wait to be called by one of the stations having the QSO.
>
> So Jim, or whomever, what is the proper way to ask for a station signal
> quality check when one encounters a QSO in progress among two or more
Hams?
>
> Additionally, does the means differ if said QSO in progress is a
structured
> Net?
>
> Thanks guys!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Wilhite" <w5jo at brightok.net>
> Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Why The Letter "Q" And Who Invented The Code?
>
>
> >I do wish people (hams) would study this example and use Q codes as
> >intended,  for example, "QRZ the net".  Many of the codes have been
> >misapplied in the past 20 years.
> >
> > At one time there were questions on the test as to the meaning of
various
> > Q codes.  I haven't looked lately so can't speak about today's tests.
> >
> > Jim/W5JO
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob Peters" <rwpeters at swbell.net>
> > Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] Why The Letter "Q" And Who Invented The Code?
> >
> >
> >> Very interesting John..Thankyou for sharing that tidbit...
> >>
> >> Bob W1PE
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> >> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Why The Letter "Q" And Who Invented The
Code?
> >>
> >> Did anybody look at Wiki?
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code
> >>
> >> Best
> >> -John
> >
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