[CQ-Contest] Echoes

[Tom W8JI]

> I have full CW break-in and couldn't live without it. I use an Ameritron 
> QSK-5 box that gives me very clean break-in (no artifacts, etc). On 
> Sunday, the weirdest thing ... I swear I was hearing my own signal, echoed 
> back to me. At first I thought it was somebody trying to steal my 
> frequency but quickly realized that the signal ended right after I stopped 
> transmitting. I listened closely between my "live" dits and dahs and, yes 
> indeed, it was me!


Years ago on 20 meters before packet and stuff, when I wanted to find out if 
the band was open, I'd pop my microphone PTT button and listen for the 
return click.