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
>