[Elecraft] 'Q' signal trivia

[Gary Gregory]

sounds good to me...AR

On 19 July 2011 13:04, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Bert wrote:
>
> > I've yet to hear --...  ...--  ... sent - hihi
>
> Don't you mean --... ...-- .----. ... ?  :-)
>
> My pet peeve is use of that damned "BK".  "KN" doesn't make much sense
> either...that's actually an open parenthesis.  Both are just ham-only
> prosigns that would never have been heard on professional military or
> commercial Morse radiotelegraph circuits.
>
> What's wrong with the military standard:  If a response is expected from
> the other station, send "K" (equivalent to phone "OVER").  If a response
> is not expected, send "AR" (equivalent to phone "OUT").  That's it in
> total!
>
> There's zero value to that repulsive "BK" that has spread like an ugly
> malignant Morse teratoma among many hams in the past decade or so.
>
> Mike / KK5F
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