As I look at the calendar, I find myself celebrating the 50th anniversary of my
first ham license. Hopefully that qualifies me to participate in this thread
about MisQ's. I haven't heard anyone use QSL in lieu of Over, but I don't
spend that much time on phone. The hobby needs new blood, so if
Did you mean they have as in CB'ers saying 73's or hams? The
misuse of 73's goes back a lot further than the advent of Citizen's
Band radio. Just do a Google Image search of W1AW QSL or 1AW QSL
and you'll see The Old Man himself was guilty of this faux pas. Case
in point, he signed the
By my last line I meant hams as far back as I can remember.
Also, one of the other terms which crept in from CB is what is your
personal?. I even heard an Australian ham ask someone that question on 10
meters SSB a couple of years ago. Also we have had newbys come on a
roundtable frequency
He also used two Q signals on the card instead of writing it out. Kind of
like a phone op speaking out HI HI instead of laughing eh? Personally, I
don't have a problem with people using Q signals on phone. I just thought
it interesting that it was on the scan of the card. Somehow me thinks
You are the first to bring up the break thing i am a EMT in VA we use
break to mean that we are done talking to one person and are starting on
a new statement for some one else and some times i forget and do it on
2M and you would think it's the end of the world i had a guy dial 911
and had
The line Break, Break, Break appears in The New Technician Class FCC
License Preparation, Third Edition, which contained the July 1, 1990
326 Question Pool. Gorden West, WB6NOA is credited, and it was
Developed and Published by Master Publishing, Inc., and distributed by
Radio Shack. I quote
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Jim Abercrombie wrote:
By my last line I meant hams as far back as I can remember.
Also, one of the other terms which crept in from CB is what is your
personal?. I even heard an Australian ham ask someone that question on 10
meters SSB a couple of years ago. Also we have
In the past, using the phrase break, break, break--called a triple
break--was supposed to only occur in an emergency. This comes from net
operating procedures mainly. Otherwise, you would just say break, break
if you wanted to be recognized, but not for emergency purposes.
Nonetheless, a
