On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Norm Gertz wrote: > Larry......your question sparked some interest by the troops. > The fact is however that we really cannot generate Q signals just for the > USA; these are international in nature. > Nothing however is to prevent any operator from making a query in any manner > he chooses. > > 73 Norm K1AA
As long as both parties know what is being asked, there isn't a problem. If both people understand "QRL?" to mean "Is this freq in use?", no matter what the book says it means, then that is what it is going to mean at the moment. If everyone understands what "IE?" means, then that will also commnuicate. The problem is going to be with new ops who don't know what these accepted meanings are when they differ from what the book says or aren't even in the book. But I think most people who are really interested are going to find out anyway. It didn't take me too long to find out what "5NN ATT" meant after my first ARRL DX contest. (I actually wrote it down like that in the log at the time.) :) 73, Zack W9SZ Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
