Edward Swynar wrote:
> grid locator---FN03---twice. My personal pet peeve was those participants
> who responded to my transmissions with a quick & snappy single "EN98" (for
> example): I engage in semi break-in here, and more often than not I'd miss
> the first letter of the other fellow's grid...if they'd take a nano-second &
> send it twice, I'd have had it, no problem! Hi Hi.
Maybe it's just me, but when someone comes back to me with a
transmission starting with "EN", my brain wants to decode that as an "R"
sent with an extra space after the first dit. I actually hear this
affectation frequently during contests like Field Day and SS that
attract casual operators. I don't know the origin of it, but I've been
hearing this since novice days, where it was sent as an "R" with an
extra long dash. Can't do that with a keyer. I guess it's morphed into
EN.
Rick N6RK
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