[Elecraft] K3 1750Hz roger beep

[The Smiths]

I'm with you.  If I wanted to talk on CB I wouldn't have taken all the time to learn morse code in the first place.  Well, either that or I would just get on the VHF/UHF bands... NO ROGER BEEPS.. PLEASE for the love of....


 
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> From: rfenabled at gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:59:34 +0000
> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 1750Hz roger beep
> 
> Hi,
> 
> (Snip)
> 
> 1) redesign this as for Roger-Beeb (at the end of transmit) for any 
> voice mode (FM, SSB) - maybe with some tone to choose (sometimes CW 
> "K" on higher wpm used also)
> (End Snip)
> 
> PLEASE do NOT do this.
> 
> Many operators in VK hate this CBer type of operating.
> 
> A lot of us refuse to acknowledge a TX with a roger beep of any kind, even in a contest.
> 
> Don't try and tell me it helps, it doesn't. It just adds to the noise.
> 
> A group of us have written to the regulator in Australia and have asked for a ruling to make it illegal to TX a roger beep tone and we have received word from them that a ruling is being considered.
> 
> If successful, we will petition the FCC to do likewise.
> 
> Working weak signals, the roger beeps are distracting and not helpful.
> 
> As for our friends in the EU who contest, you do not need a roger beep, but you could work on cleaning up your audio as some of the worst audio I have heard on the bands lately is coming from badly set up audio out of some stations in the EU in the contest.
> 
> BTW, 10/15M was rocking into VK this last weekend.
> 
> 73's
> Gary
> VK4WT/P and NO roger beep or lid behaviour
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