[CW] use of AR

[DANNY DOUGLAS]

Heard one of the FOC ops doing just that , this morning, dont kow why AR is 
suddenly a fad.
As to KN. it should indeed be used by stations turning the QSO back to the 
other one.  It means 'GO AHEAD - the station I am talking to"  That way no 
one else would call???  If you used K, that is an open invitation to"all".

Danny Douglas
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy" <royanjoy at ncn.net>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 8:15 AM
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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