[Elecraft] OT: 20M moving QRM

[Thorpe, Jeffrey]

I was an engineer, and now a lawyer. I call it "noise".

Jeff - kg7hdz

> On Mar 3, 2016, at 2:45 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
> Well, consulting the source [ACP131]:
> 
> QRN? "Are you troubled by static?"
> QRN "I am troubled by static"
> 
> QRM? "Are you being interfered with?"
> QRM "I am being interfered with"
> 
> I suppose "static" could be "interfering with you" as well as another station, and much of 75 m in the evening probably classes as "static" regardless of its source. :-)  It's seemed to me that the Q-signals class QRM as caused by another station and interference from everything else as QRN, but I'm a retired engineer not a lawyer.  Additions to the ICAO/ITU standards can be found at www.zerobeat.net/drakelist/missingq.html
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
> - www.cqp.org
> 
>> On 3/3/2016 1:11 PM, Scott Ellington wrote:
>>> On 3/3/2016 14:47, Fred Jensen wrote:
>>> QRN, not QRM
>> I thought QRN was exclusively atmospheric noise.  Perhaps we need a new
>> Q code for man-made garbage.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> Scott  K9MA
> 
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