[Elecraft] 'Q' signal trivia

[Matt Zilmer]

KN also tells a breaking station that you're in QSO.  So if they creep
up on your signal during the tail end (callsign exchange), the context
is clear.  I've always taken KN to mean a context marking rather than
some unfriendly indicator of exclusion.  Haven't met any hams that are
like that.... :)

73,
matt W6NIA




On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:31:18 -0400, you wrote:

>bk doesn't bother me so much if it's sent as BK and not _BK_ (i.e. not run together). For clarity's sake, if I just end with K I leave an extra amount of space so that meaning is clear, per Igor's note below. 
>
>I don't ever use _KN_ myself anymore. Mostly because, yes, it's a parentheses, but also because all the ARRL books I ever read when I was studying back in the '80's, and these books were older than that by some amount, said that _KN_ means something like, "I only want a response from the other station, no breaking stations please", which doesn't seem terribly friendly.