[Elecraft] 'Q' signal trivia

[Kate Hutton]

Exclusion is not always unfriendly.  I have often heard net members converse
before or after a net about net matters, using KN.

73 Kate K6HTN

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Matt Zilmer <mzilmer at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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
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> 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.
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