[CW] AR or K after CQ?

[DANNY DOUGLAS]

Nope -   AR is the same as SK or VA - and means I am finished with my 
communications, and am not going to listen anymore.

That reminds me of the "Roger, over and out" often (way too often) heard or 
seen on tv and movies.  That would mean"  OVER - (I am finished talking this 
round, you go ahead), and OUT means " I am finished with our 
communications".  In other words they just said:  "Over to you but I aint 
listening"

I have seen at least one DX RTTY station ending every transmission with "SK" 
and when he gets a dozen others calling him, he gets upset, because most of 
the time he is still trying to talk to the original station.  By the way, 
SK, and VA are simply the same ..._._ character in cw, and each was used in 
different services in different parts of the world, and still may be.

The other guy is correct:  K should be used at the end of every CQ.  It 
means "anyone please answer".   KN should be used at the end of your last 
"over" and means you want ONLY the station to which you are presently 
talking,  to come back to you. "K4KYV DE N7DC R TKS FOR QSO AND HOW COPY NOW 
KN" If N1ooo calls at that time, I will probably tell him to stand by, or 
just ignore him.   If I say: " K4KYV DE N7DC RGR THANKS QSO ES HOPE SEE YOU 
AGN 73 AR"   That means I have finished talking to you (assuming you have 
given me your final before that), and now the N1ooo or anyone else has free 
air to call me.

The present "authority" on tellecomunications pro-signs, would seem to be 
the NATO instructional books, which were just a follow-on of US and some 
other authorative government instructions from way back in the 30s-40s. 
Those books, by the way, are called the ACP line of telecommunications 
instructions.  You can search them, such as ACP 117,   etc.

Hey, and you do have people answer after you say  CQ AR, but you dont know 
how many DIDNT answer because you used that.   !!!!!
Danny Douglas
N7DC
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D. Chester" <k4kyv at charter.net>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:31 PM
Subject: [CW] AR or K after CQ?


>I got into what turned into a heated debate recently over the use of AR
> following a CQ.
>
> The other person said you should never send anything but K after a CQ, and
> that it is poor operating to use AR.
>
> Isn't AR supposed to mean that you have made a call, and you are standing
> by, listening for a station you have not yet made contact with? For 
> example,
> if I had a sked with W9XXX and gave him a call, I would send W9XXX W9XXX 
> de
> K4KYV AR. Once I hear his reply and we have established contact, I would
> then send W9XXX de K4KYV K (or KN).
>
> When I call CQ and stand by to listen, by definition, no contact has yet
> been established with the station I eventually contact. So wouldn't the
> appropriate prosign be AR? To me, K implies that we have established 
> contact
> and I am telling him to "go ahead".
>
> I looked this up in some of my old books both ARRL and non-ARRL.  Some of
> the more recent editions seem to prefer K, but Handy's first edition of 
> the
> ARRL handbook from the late 20's used ._._. (AR).
>
> I say it is a matter of preference.  Who would be the "authority" in such 
> a
> matter?  I have heard it both ways in all the 50  years I have been
> licensed.  To me, AR has a more pleasant swing for ending a CQ, and it 
> seems
> to better round out the transmission.  K seems too abrupt.  I have never 
> had
> a problem getting someone to answer my CQ after sending AR.
>
>
> Don k4kyv
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