QRL?

[paul at paccomm.com]

Anyone worth their salt on CW would ask   .. .  (IE)

Anybody who doesn't understand that and whines about "you didn't
ask QRL?" at me gets no sympathy...........

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>From sellington" <sellington at mail.ssec.wisc.edu  Mon Jul 24 14:42:41 1995
From: sellington" <sellington at mail.ssec.wisc.edu (sellington)
Date: 24 Jul 1995 08:42:41 -0500
Subject: QRL
Message-ID: <n1405547068.71935 at mail.ssec.wisc.edu>

>Well, I for one WILL change how I ask if a frequency is in use.  One
>suggestion was to use "TEST K9MA" as a quick CQ to use instead of QRL.

>I will now send "TEST K9MA" if I want to know if a frequency is in use.

>Tree N6TR

>(Thought we needed a little humor in here somewhere...)

Just remember, I get all the rare multipliers that come back!

Scott K9MA


>From John Dorr K1AR" <p00259 at psilink.com  Mon Jul 24 16:04:00 1995
From: John Dorr K1AR" <p00259 at psilink.com (John Dorr K1AR)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 10:04:00 -0500
Subject: wae cw date?
Message-ID: <3015680611.3.p00259 at psilink.com>

It's the Aug 12 weekend! 73 John

>DATE:   Sun, 23 Jul 1995 21:13:28 -0700
>FROM:   philip allardice <KT3Y at ix.netcom.com>
>
>According to the July/August issue of NCJ, the Worked all Europe CW
>contest is 19-20 August. In August QST, the date is listed under
>that date header, but the text below indicates that the contest is 
>12-13 August. I thought the WAE CW was always the 2nd full
>weekend in August. (ie 12-13 August) 
>
>Does anyone have additional information regarding the actual
>date this year? 
>Many thanks & 73  Phil kt3y
>


>From John Dorr K1AR" <p00259 at psilink.com  Mon Jul 24 15:49:38 1995
From: John Dorr K1AR" <p00259 at psilink.com (John Dorr K1AR)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 09:49:38 -0500
Subject: QRL
Message-ID: <3015679739.1.p00259 at psilink.com>

Hey, that's my way for checking. Get another one bub! 73 John

>DATE:   Sat, 22 Jul 1995 09:03:47 -0700
>FROM:   Larry Tyree <tree at cmicro.com>
>
>Well, I for one WILL change how I ask if a frequency is in use.  One
>suggestion was to use "TEST K9MA" as a quick CQ to use instead of QRL.
>
>I will now send "TEST K9MA" if I want to know if a frequency is in use.
>
>Tree N6TR
>
>(Thought we needed a little humor in here somewhere...)