On Feb 26, 2004, at 6:07 PM, Richard J. Norton wrote:
In summary, I use:
"CQ N6AA N6AA"
without any "TEST" or "K."
I totally agree with Dick here. I also want to add that when I'm trying
to copy a station who is sending above a speed I can easily copy (and
that would be virtually all of them), a terminal TEST makes my life
more difficult.
Here's why. I might just catch the first couple of characters in the
callsign, before my brain fritzes out. Then I can sorta memorize the
last couple of seconds of the transmission, and replay them in my mind,
slowing it down so I can copy the last few characters. But, if the
station sends a terminal TEST, I'll recognise that immediately, even at
really high speeds, but it wipes out my auditory memory.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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