Hmmm ... I was, last time I checked. (grin)

Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Don Bishop wrote:

> Nothing, as far as I know, unless you're not really k 7 u i j.  <smile>
>
> Don
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:08:24 -0700, Mike Freeman wrote:
>
> >I still like CQ but, as everyone has correctly pointed out, that's not
> >accepted usage these days.
> >
> >So what's wrong with:  "K 7 U I J here!  Anyone wanna gab?"
> >
> >Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
> >Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >
> >
> >On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Don Bishop wrote:
> >
> >> Well, I don't see anything wrong with "monitoring".  After all, if
> >> you're kind of interested in talking to anybody you probably will
> >> indeed be monitoring to see if anybody comes back or whatever.  I
> >> suppose you could call cqcq and give your call and then say monitoring,
> >> but that's probably overkill to say the least. <smile>
> >>
> >> Or you could also say something like:
> >>
> >> "this is W6SMB on channel; anybody around?"
> >>
> >> But then I suppose we could get into a discussion of whether you're on
> >> frequency or chanel, at which point I think I'll just go back to 20 cw.
> >>
> >> Don W6SMB
> >>
>