We are talking about the "K". The space preceding it in your example is
absolutely required. When conditions are poor, I watch the MMTTY waterfall
if I can't hear his carrier clearly. I think dropping the carrier is the
only true test of when his transmission has ended. If he sends a "K" then
remains in TX due to a malfunction, it does me no good to go ahead and
reply just because he sent the "K'. I haven't been able to come up with a
reason to use the "K", and I have dropped it completely. "BK" as well.
Doesn't the carrier tell all? Maybe I am missing something.
Every buffer I use has a space at the end, intentionally. Almost all have
one at the beginning as well.
Jerry W4UK
At 18:46 1/7/03 -0600, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
> > >your callsign like DE AA5AU AA5AU K. Not necessarily DE AA5AU DE AA5AU K.
> >
> > Is the "K" really required here? Why?
> >
> > Jerry W4UK
> >
>
>Another excellent question and one that I've pondered. In Roundup I did
>not use
>a K at the end of my CQ message or at the end of my confirmation/QRZ message
>but I did but a space at the very end of those messages. It seemed to
>work out
>fine. I did put BK at the end of my exchange buffer though.
>
>My thinking here is that sometimes when copy is not good, signal weak or QRM,
>I want something at the end to disguish that my transmission has
>ended. Heck, with
>MMTTY copying so good these days, sometimes it's hard to hear when a station
>ends his transmission. I don't know that a K is necessary, but something,
>at least a
>space is needed.
>
>There were a couple of stations that I saw that did not end their
>transmission with a
>space or a K and it came out like DE AA5AURPTVIWBOESAZ. So you can guess
>what got highlighted - AA5AURPTVIWBOESAZ.
>
>And if Jerry were to do it, it would come out DE W4UKRQBOERZELMOE or
>something.
>You wouldn't know if it was W4UK or W4UKR. Actually we would all know it was
>Jerry, but maybe on a new callsign, it might cause problems.
>
>Another good question though. Good for discussion.
>
>73, Don
>
>
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