[Elecraft] Not moving your wrist sending CW ?

[Walter Underwood]

II.9.10. Using ‘KN’

‘K’ = ‘over’. Sending just ‘K’ at the end of your over leaves the door open for other stations to break in. If you don’t want to be interrupted, send ‘KN’.

‘KN’ means that you want to hear ONLY the station whose callsign you just sent (= ‘go ahead, others keep out’ or ‘over to you only’), in other words: no breakers at this time please.

‘KN’ is mainly used when chaos is around the corner. A possible scenario: different stations are coming back to your CQ. You are decoding one partial call and you send: ‘ON4AB? DE G3ZZZ PSE UR CALL AGN (again) K’. The station ON4AB? answers you, but in addition several other stations call simultaneously, making it impossible to copy his call. The procedure is to call ON4AB? again and end your call with ‘KN’ instead of ‘K’, this to emphasize you only want to hear ON4AB? come back to you. Example: ‘ON4AB? DE G3ZZZ KN’ or even ‘ONLY ON4AB? DE G3ZZZ KN’. If you are still short of authority on the frequency you may try ‘ON4AB? DE G3ZZZ KN N N N’ (keep some extra space between the letters N). Now you are really getting nervous... 

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wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
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http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

> On Mar 29, 2020, at 2:46 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
> Officially, "K" is the prosign for "invitation to transmit."  OK, nothing is "official" in ham radio, but hams have traditionally ended a CQ or a transmission with "K", an invitation to transmit ... roughly the CW equivalent of "over." Also traditionally, although less so, is "KN" which roughly translates, "over to the station I'm in contact with only." Ending a CQ with "KN" is thus mildly nonsensical since you're not in contact with anyone yet.
> 
> However, consider that the Morse character for "?" translates to "IMI" [and others such as "UTI" and "EWI"], the prosign for "Please repeat," or "I will repeat."  In the heyday of radiotelegraphy, "INT" was used by the Navy as the interrogatory prosign meaning "What follows is a question."  INT QSB, "Are my signals fading?"  Hams and most commercial ops just used IMI for either, still do, and somehow, we're not confused.  K or KN ... most will figure it out.
> 
> 73,
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
> 
> On 3/29/2020 2:13 PM, brianchapnick at rogers.com wrote:
>> Jim, pardon my ignorance but KN means end of transmission or invite a specific station to transmit from what I see. Why would that deter a reply from a CQ? I am sure you are right but I would like to know the experienced understanding from a pro.
>> 
>> Brian VE3GMZ
>> 
> 
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