[CW] use of AR

[Roy]

Hi Ron,

It isn't at all limited to new CW ops. The practice seems especially rampant 
amongst such as FOC. And BTW, I'm not referring at all to traffic handling.

Roy,   K6XK


> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On
> Behalf Of Roy
> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 8:16 AM
> To: cw at mailman.qth.net
> 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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