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Subject: [SECC] [sedxc] GQP Observation.....
From: aa4lr at arrl.net (Bill Coleman)
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 06:33:48 -0400
> On Apr 11, 2016, at 9:23 PM, Ben Coleman NJ8J <nj8j at benshome.net> wrote:
> 
> That sounds like it might have been me, except that on both days, I
> wasn't on 40 until after 2200Z.  I was pretty much following the current
> instructions, that in-GA stations call 'CQ GQP', and out-of-GA stations
> call 'CQ GA'.  'CQ GQP' *should* be a primary indicator that the caller
> is in-GA.  I did have a handful of people ask 'in GA?' before calling me.
> 
> Of course, I was running CW, on a straight key, which at my age is hard
> on the keying arm.  I *really* didn't want to make the CQ any longer.

You should have been using that keyer I built for you 30 years ago?.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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