[Elecraft] Use of Abbreviations (OT?)

[Craig Rairdin]

> I don't mind awfully much when someone uses QRM or QRN on 
> phone

Since we're griping and slightly off topic, here's one I ran into over the
weekend:

A lot of people send R (for "received") as "dit, dah dit, dit, dah dit" --
with a gap after the first dit. In the VHF QSO contest, when I'm expecting
you to send a grid location that could start with "EN", your "R" sounds like
the beginning of your location and it's quite confusing. Especially when
we're bouncing 2M CW signals off the aurora and I've got a 1.5KW 6M station
in the next room shutting down my receiver every time they key the
transmitter. :-)

What a lot of fun, though. I hadn't worked any VHF other than 2M FM. I
couldn't figure out how we were going to work anyone outside our own grid on
2M. Kinda makes me think about adding the 2M transverter to my add-on
shopping list for my K2. :-)

Craig
NZ0R
K1 #1966
K2 #4941