This group has been a lifesaver,,,,. Ok, I'm having a no rf power issue. I don't have any fancy equipment to do an accurate diagnosis, I'm using a DVM and the onboard testing equipment. First off my

Might as well throw in my two cents: as US Navy Radioman I was taught that the prosign AR means "I am finished transmitting (don't bother to reply). The prosign K means "I am finished transmitting

Let's resort to the "shave-and-a-hair-cut" sign off and be done with it. Jack, W8TEE

Anywho the Biennio batteries get good reviews and a 24V 10Ah model would not be terribly heavy but power conversion is needed for both 20V and 12V. By time you add QCX, amp, battery, coax, antenna,

>>>Squalo'- 6m square loop.<<< I had a real CushCraft Squalo for 10M and gave that away a few years back. The 6M on in the picture is really a LawnChair Squalo about 30" on a side made up of al tube

Conventionally....... VA is used for end of transmission with the other operator, or end of messages. The characters are run together. S K is often used to signify that you are shutting down and

Hi all I would like to have one final input to this debate. Think about it, when the person on the other end of the qso ends with DitDitDitDaHDitDaH you have no idea as to whether he has sent SK or VA

From some things I've read, techinically CQ is a prosign as per ITU-R M.1172

BK is a prosign defined by ITU-R M.1172

I have trouble with 'CQ' sometimes sent as seperate letters and sometimes sent as one long 'prosign'. Either is quite recognizable but which is correct? -.-.--.- or -.-. --.- ? PJH, N7PH

Hi Allison! That's great! Congratulations on your retirement! It would be fun to catch up with Marshall- perhaps we can all rg chew one of these days when I get my antenna(s) up at my new

Jack Yes, it would probably need a few more bytes of memory to compare actual frequency with EEPROM stored "upper limit" and "lower limit" that could be a user entered semi-fixed variable.

William The FCC also gave the call sign "N0CLU"" which is among the more hilarious ones. _,_

Shane, Retired two years ago. Marshall is local to me and still on the air W1HK. Had a lot of good fun and worked on a lot of interesting projects like the body loaded antennas. Did a lot of field

That's still not cut-and-dried if out-of-band can vary among countries. The only alternative would be for Hans to offer specific 328 chips for each country for each band. That's a train just begging

Seems that all that is needed is for the QCX to inhibit keying for out-of-band frequencies. This would leave it still able to listen to out-of-band stations. _._

Using either can result in confusion for non-professional CW ops. An extra microsecond or two to confirm end-of-message would facilitate clarity, especially for those of us

Anyway the real issue is not whether it is SK or VA (or EEETET), but whether they have a bar over the letters to signify that they are sent as one character. I don't know that there is any easy way to

Sheldon Most of us here in the states have no idea what to think about the VA, either! (Veterans Administration) Thanks to all, this thread has been most entertaining. I would strongly suggest that

While we're on the topic of prosigns, for a long time I thought BK was a proSign as a lot of people seem to run the two letters together and was -...-.- rather than -... -.- so maybe some were