[CQ-Contest] Prosign for Please Copy

[Barry W2UP]

I'd really like to comment, but I don't have the time, as I'm destinated.

Barry W2UP

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 4:54 PM Hans Brakob <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Even the Justices on the Supreme Court get to publish a dissenting
> opinion, so here is mine.  Don’t unfriend me.
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> I notice a fair amount of “attitude” about the prelude “Please copy” which
> was commonly heard this past weekend during Phone Sweepstakes.
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> That practice comes from good historical stock, and I have a fondness for
> it.
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> The Sweepstakes contest has it’s roots in the traffic handlers of the
> American Radio Relay League (remember that club).  It was designed for
> traffic handlers to test their skill at actually exchanging some
> information (not just running the “FiE NIGH FOE” tape loop).
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> As you might expect (given the traffic handler roots)  the contest
> exchange resembles the heading of a standard message being sent for relay.
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> So phone message handlers preambled their traffic with “Please copy my
> message #1, Precedence Alpha, from K0HB, Check 17 (groups), Origin
> Minnesota”
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> So there you have “the rest of the story”.
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> Copy?
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> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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> PS:  As an unrelated “aside”, in my Navy days voice communications were
> almost exclusively used for real-time tactical and maneuvering
> communications, as in “On my mark right corpen speed 25 <pause> MARK”.  On
> the other hand, if you wanted to send a piece of formal record traffic by
> voice, you prefaced your transmission with “COPY”, which meant “write this
> down”.
>
>
> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> “Just a Boy and his Radio”™
> ________________________________
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kzerohb=gmail.com at contesting.com> on
> behalf of Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 1:55:46 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Prosign for Please Copy
>
> On 11/24/2020 9:37 AM, Ward Silver wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, "5NN" is the prosign for "please copy"
>
> When someone starts with "Please Copy" I delete the QSO and tell the op
> that I don't work stations who say "please copy."
>
> To those who say I'm being hard on them, I respond that someone has to
> teach them that it's bad procedure. From my days long ago in the civil
> rights movement, I learned that if you're not part of the solution,
> you're part of the problem.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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