[Elecraft] Digimodes, what am I missing?

[Stephen Selberg]

Greetings to the group,

U agree...back when my son was young and just laid in his bassenett (=much
more radio time), I used to have rag chew qso's quite often on 30 and 40
meters using psk rtty & Olivia. They are a number of hams looking to rag
chew, so forget the macros and start typing away. If they respond macro
free, that's great, and if not, send your 73 and call cq again. You'd be
surprised at the amount of macro free qsos out there. Digi modes are nice
when I don't want to disturb the test of the household in the late evenings
as well.

Enjoy the digital!

73
Steve KS6PD

On Friday, March 21, 2014, Dave Barr <recordupe at verizon.net> wrote:

> Denis, you may be missing the opportunity to start unique conversations
> with hams you run across in the digital sub-bands. The worst that can
> happen is that they will just give you a look at their macros.  The best is
> that they may start typing back.  There are a number of operators who chew
> the rag from time to time on 20 meter rtty,  and I'm sure it occurs
> sometimes on other modes and bands, except for the JT modes.
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