[PPRAANet] How to Make Contacts on the Radio or Not +HNY

[Timothy Butcher]

Good information.  Happy New Year to all.
Kilo Echo Zero Tango Whiskey Bravo

Timothy W Butcher
KE0TWB
WQZE662


On Tue, Jan 1, 2019, 08:28 George Shaiffer <gshaiffer at msn.com wrote:

> Happy New Year to all.
> Thanks for the comments and Link
> This is the type of information that those of us with little or no on the
> air experience need to hear/read.
> George Shaiffer
> KEQCC (Kilo Echo Quebec Charlie Charlie)😏👍
> ________________________________
> From: ppraanet-bounces at mailman.qth.net <ppraanet-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
> on behalf of Douglas Hagerman via PPRAANet <ppraanet at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2018 5:31 PM
> To: Jim Bishop
> Cc: PPRAA; Paul Signorelli
> Subject: Re: [PPRAANet] How to Make Contacts on the Radio or Not
>
> Also http://www.k0nr.com/wordpress/2013/05/3295/
>
> > On Dec 31, 2018, at 18:15, Jim Bishop <notapope at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> >  Good advice.   Whatever HT I happen to have on my belt is usually on
> scan.  Even if I hear a familiar voice, it could be on any of several
> frequencies and I usually try on a couple of them to no avail.
> >
> > 73
> > Jim
> > KD0KQL
> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Paul Signorelli <w0rw1 at msn.com>
> > Date: 12/31/2018 3:47 PM (GMT-07:00)
> > To: PPRAA <ppraanet at mailman.qth.net>
> > Subject: [PPRAANet] How to Make Contacts on the Radio or Not
> >
> > I hear guys on HF and FM Simplex come on the air and give their call
> sign once and say 'CQ'.
> > Like "KB0GEV  CQ" ..... Now was that KE0 KB0 KD0 ..  GEV GBZ ?;  B, C,
> D, E, G, P, T, V and Z sound very much alike when there is unfamiliarity.
> > You have to make noise on a unpopulated radio frequency especially if
> you have a new call
> > that know one knows. There is no radio dispatcher on the other end of
> your frequency.
> > You can't just give your call once and expect to have people answer you.
> > If you are on a repeater a single call might be all you need to do to
> make a contact.
> > If you want to be ignored just say  'KB0GEV testing'.
> >
> > 146.52 Simplex,  as an example,  isn't monitored by a police dispatcher.
> It may be just a scanned frequency that some one might hear in the back
> ground of their 'Noise of Life'.
> > Guys who might respond to you have to get over to where their radio is
> located and listen for you. If you never make a second call they won't know
> what or who it was.
> > If no one knows your call sign (like if you are travelling through town
> in your car),  you have to repeat your call several times and then use
> phonetics, (Kilo Bravo Zero Golf Echo Victor).
> > Then say "Listening on 52", so the scanning guys will know where to
> respond to you.
> > Then tell them what you are doing and what you need; a radio check,
> directions, traffic reports or just a QSO/Contact/ SOTA, etc..
> > Happy Contacts in the New Year.
> > Paul   w0rw
> >
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