[CW] use of AR

[Ron Zond]

Roy

It apears that the new crop of CW ops need to learn the language.
I haven't heard this on the air.

Ron
K3MIY

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Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 8:16 AM
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Subject: [CW] use of AR


All,

I no longer have my ARRL Operating Manual since we moved to Iowa, but I
remember that the prosign AR was listed under the category of  "End Codes."
Now what is this new fad of using AR AHEAD of the call signs, as a
transmission is about to be ended? Then, AFTER the same call signs, K or BK
( or horror of horrors, KN) is being used. Never in my 54 years of hamming
have I observed this until recently. It seems that sending AR ahead of call
signs is redundant in high order -- isn't it obvious enough that when you
begin sending call signs, that is going to be the end of your transmission?
>From whence did this new habit come? It's spreading like wild fire. Just
about the same way that the illogical practice of using KN during general
rag chews also spread. Are the blind once again leading the blind?

73,   Roy    AR  DE K6XK   KN



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