Perhaps I gave up too soon. Apparently those are normal returns for call accepted and/or busy signal. I should have tried more times AND used CQ (as you suggested). ;-)
I will try again sometimes. Mike --- In [email protected], JI1BQW <ji1...@...> wrote: > > Hi Mike: > > >UR: /JP1YJVA > >R1: WA7FW B > >R2: WA7FW G > >MY: KC7VE > > This looks good to me. > > >"JI1BQW this is KC7VE (Seattle) on Gateway WA7FW B" > > So does it. > > Maybe I was not sitting in my shack or the repeater was busy if it > returned "RPT?". > > 73, > -- > JI1BQW - Kay Ishikawa > > > ----------------------- Original Message ----------------------- > On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:06:03 -0000 > "ipscone" <ipsc...@...> wrote: > > hmmmm... I tried contacting Kay this morning and got indication of errors. > Here is was my setup: > > UR: /JP1YJVA > R1: WA7FW B > R2: WA7FW G > MY: KC7VE > /Mike > > I also set my TX MSG to: Set UR=WA7FW B > > I then made this call: > > "JI1BQW this is KC7VE (Seattle) on Gateway WA7FW B" > > I made this call 3 times. I waited a loooong time between transmissions. I > saw my display show two kinds of responses, in addition to my callsign. I saw > "UR: ?" and "REP ?". > > I also tried changing the call to "Gateway WA7FW G" when the first call > didn't work. > > Was this the correct procedure? > > --------------------- Original Message Ends -------------------- >
