[CQ-Contest] Q-Signals for Contesting

Jeff Stai wk6i.jeff at gmail.com
Sun May 10 16:59:51 EDT 2015


On Sunday, May 10, 2015, K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
wrote:

>
> Now that bad signal quality is a potential disqualifying event in certain
> contests, is there a simple way to alert somebody, especially on CW, that
> his  signal has a quality issue?
>
> I can't find a Q signal for such in the ARRL list of Q-signals. I recall
> having seen somewhere a Q-signal for "Your keying is defective", which
> sounds more like a "You need to check your keyer weight setting" than
> "You've
> got spurs", but I can't find a reference to that one.
>
>
QSD =  Your keying is defective, your signals are bad.

This would work in principle, if we all knew our Q codes. ;)

73 jeff wk6i

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