[CQ-Contest] Good contact, back to you

[James Cain]

"When someone asks you to verify your power, or a serial number -- like "5w?" or "1239" never just send "R" -- it's much more fun to resend your power or serial number a few times." -- N4ZR

Exactly! Never use one one word when you can use five! Better yet, send your power several ways, like 100, ATT, 1TT, and let the recipient figure it out for herself.  

Pete, thanks for the nice feedback, but I am not "god," just an editor. 

The correct affirmative CW response to a question is the letter "C." I learned this as a 13-year-old Novice, and later figured out that "C" refered so "si," which is Spanish for "yes." A cut word, I guess. Man, this was a lot of information to absorb when my brain was still forming. 

When I was a serious CW travffic handler as a teen-ager, I learned to, when the other guy stood by after sending a message, send one DIT to indicate I had copied the message and was ready for another. I learned this from an OT with whom I had an after-school schedule; Russ, W0BDR, who sent perfect code with a bug, was blind, and copied traffic on a Braille writer. 

Jim Cain, K1TN