[RTTY] CQ or QRZ

[Jerry Flanders]

Languages evolve over time, and the Q signal set (now 98 years old) 
is just another language. Whatever somebody wrote in the dictionary 
when the language was young may or may not apply today. Many old 
dictionaries will show examples of this.

Those people using QRZ 's _commonly_ accepted definitions will 
probably communicate more clearly in a RTTY contest.

BTW, on Wikipedia, QRZ is currently defined as "Who is calling me?" 
That seems to fit pretty well with how we are using it. We have 
dropped the "?" because it is redundant here.

Jerry W4UK

At 10:23 AM 1/11/2011, William Smith wrote:
>Well Tony, I'm going to change my TU macro from QRZ to QRV just to be
>technically correct. Then at least people who really know exactly what the
>Q-signals mean will send me their call right away instead of waiting 
>for someone
>else to send, which will cause dead time in my run. I must confess that I
>thought QRZ meant "whoever is there send now", but since it really means
>something else to Q-signal pros, I can't argue that. I'm a relative 
>newbie with
>only 10 years contesting and only recognize the meaning of a few of the most
>common Q-signals. Always something to learn. That's one of the 
>reasons I enjoy
>contesting. Do you think QRV will catch on, or will I always be a queer duck?
>
>73,
>Bill N3XL