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QNEWS - MAY 30 VK4 ON AIR 2021

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Hello, I’m Geoff Emery, VK4ZPP, and I’ve been thinking.

Amongst the confusing melee of call signs being grasped under the randomised
callsign for life, there are some issues in operation from some of our
recently
qualified members. The activity from many of these people is highly
commendable and
great to encounter. Digital has been a learning experience to many with
Foundation
licences and the availability of contests has got many behind the
microphone. What
more can we hope for than an increasing band of enthusiasts?

It is obvious that there is a flaw in the program to bring people through the
licensing process and that is too little time is spent grounding people in
the
history, culture and practices of our pursuit. As you would have realised, an
activity that traces parts of its ancestry back about 150 years has
developed some
traditions. The railways and then the public telegraph systems popularised
the
telegraphic codes and then the Morse Code became standardised.

In an effort to speed the process of passing messages with conventional
terms,
certain abbreviations were adopted by telegraphists. The familiar 73 is
perhaps the
best recalled and used one which has translated into voice transmissions
from the
code era. There were many codes used but the one that we are familiar with
and
approved by the ITU, is the Q-code.

With the coming of the wireless a few accommodations were made and one is
the R-S-T
report which stands for readability, strength and tone. With the
unsophisticated
equipment in the early era of wireless messaging it was helpful to the
operator at
each end of the traffic to understand the conditions that they were each
experiencing. Along with the RST report there could be the question or
reply of QSB
& QRN, for instance, which would alert the sending station that he may
have to
repeat the text. These are practical pieces of information which operators
used on a
daily basis in merchant ships, press traffic as well as amateur radio.

Today, we have some sport or exercise of these abilities in the form of
contests or
maybe message handling exercises. Knowing the correct pro-words and
procedures makes
the experience so much more efficient and enjoyable for all the
participants. This
leads me back to the flaw in training; this is where we aren’t providing the
mentoring which gives the reasons and the background for why things are
done in
certain ways. Perhaps there needs to be an appendix to the manual for
candidates and
trainers to use.
On another matter, I have been pondering how we message about amateur
radio. One of
the things that strikes me, is we don’t seem to be able to inject
enthusiasm into
what we say. I hope that I show enthusiasm in what I present and the tag
lines have
caught on with people quoting them when we meet. However, this is a small
part of
the messaging and I try to keep a metaphorical smile when I am recording.
I wonder
how we can inject the enthusiasm that will draw people to want to read and
listen
again and again.

I’m Geoff Emery VK4ZPP & that’s what I think, how about you?


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