[Elecraft] 'Q' signal trivia

[Matt Zilmer]

True.  Sometimes, you would want uninterrupted exchanges, for clarity,
but also leave the net open for breaks.  In practice, we break in if
needed anyway.

Anyone listening to a directed net really hears a KN via the Over.  On
Navy-Marine Corps MARS, there is no simple way to break in except for
calling out Flash or Immediate traffic.  Pretty common with MARS,
unless the net is free.  Even then, contact is between two stations in
general.

73,
matt W6NIA


On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:39:54 -0700, you wrote:

>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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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