[Elecraft] KN

[John Ragle]

Hi, Phil...

     1. Agree completely with meaning of _KN_...but don't understand why 
so many PSK'ers use it...breaking a PSK QSO is somewhat difficult.

     2. <LF/CR> is just good practice...so much of the first couple of 
exchanges in PSK is done by macro that one would think people would 
include the <LF/CR> a couple of times in their macro texts. Also, at the 
beginning of an exchange, where the "call de call" macro begins things, 
I always include 2 <LF/CR> as a separator. I use the separator freely in 
the text I send...it serves as a kind of buffer while one collects ones 
thoughts, just as "unhhu.." has become a standard part of our spoken 
American English.

     3. One habit that I find particularly annoying is the termination 
of a PSK transmission with "pse kn." Since it is not unusual to lose a 
letter or two due to fading, a "k k k" would be more effective...

     4. Being an old ham (lightly cured since 1946) but relatively new 
to PSK (6-8 years) I am greatly amused by some of the things that 
PSK'ers do -- "created in..." rather than "born in..." or "age..." It is 
almost like the CB'ers invention of a new language that went with their 
somewhat suspect operating procedures..."breaker breaker..." and so on.

     5. I don't find the use of macros offensive, and many many of my 
PSK QSOs go on from there to more meaningful exchanges -- it is a 
wonderful mode for ragchewing -- but I WISH people would give some 
thought to their macros when they prepare them.

John Ragle -- W1ZI

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On 7/19/2011 1:21 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
> On 7/19/2011 9:47 AM, Larry A. Waler wrote:
>> Many older-model hams would say KN means "over to you specifically, no
>> breakers please"!
>    That's how I interpret it.  What gets me is the use of "CW"
>    prosigns on digital modes (PSK, for instance) where either
>    plain language or "usually-accepted" TTY procedures would be
>    preferable.
>
>    For example - I have the devil's own time trying to convince my
>    fellow PSK net colleagues to send a few<LF/CR>  at the
>    beginning and end of a transmission so there's a visual break
>    between that and the next station's transmissions.  We used to
>    do that with torn-tape traffic.