Hi, some people have aaid that wiht repeaters you can give your call and
then say monitoring.  That was how I wss doing it up at school, and it
seemed as though all of the regularusers of that repeater were doing the
same as well.





On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Walt Smith wrote:

> To me, good operating practice means following the traditions, whatever they
> are, of whatever mode you're operating.  Calling CQ on a repeater has never
> been traditional and all the books that I've seen recommend the same thing
> ... simply come on the machine and announce your call with no CQ, no
> "monitoring", or anything else.
>
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