[Elecraft] 'Q' signal trivia

[Gary D Krause]

Exactly!  Which is why I continue to use KN.  I only use K when calling CQ.


On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:29:06 -0700
  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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