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
>>