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Typical exchange with me as activator:<\/span><\/p> Me:<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span> CQ SOTA DE K6STR <\/span><\/p> Chaser: W1AW<\/span><\/p> Me: W1AW GM UR 55N 55N BK<\/span><\/p> Chaser: BK R R GM MIKE UR 559 559 BK<\/span><\/p> Me: TU 73 E E<\/span><\/p> If I can only copy a partial call:<\/span><\/p> Me: CQ SOTA DE K6STR<\/span><\/p> Chaser: W1$^%&@,,,,<\/span><\/p> Me: W1?<\/span><\/p> Chaser: W1AW<\/span><\/p> Me: W1AW GM UR 55N 55N BK<\/span><\/p> Chaser: BK R R GM MIKE UR 559 559 GL BK<\/span><\/p> Me: BK TU 73 E E<\/span><\/p> Chaser: E E<\/span><\/p> S2S<\/span>:<\/span><\/p> Me: CQ SOTA DE K6STR<\/span><\/p> Chaser: S2S<\/span><\/p> Me: S2S?<\/span><\/p> Chaser: S2S DE W1AW <\/span><\/p> Me: W1AW TU S2S UR 55N 55N ON W6\/CT-123 BK<\/span><\/p> Chaser: BK R R GM MIKE UR 559 55N ON W6\/CT-456 W6\/CT-456 BK<\/span><\/p> Me: BK R R TU S2S 73 E E<\/span><\/p> <\/p> Chaser: E E<\/span><\/p> Variations:<\/span><\/p> CQ CQ SOTA DE K6STR K6STR<\/span><\/p> — or —<\/span><\/p> CQ SOTA DE K6STR <\/span><\/p> — or —<\/span><\/p> CQ SOTA CQ SOTA DE K6STR K6STR ON W6\/CT-123 W6\/CT-123 BK<\/span><\/p> Sometimes, people will end their CQ with a \u201cK\u201d :<\/span><\/p> CQ CQ SOTA DE K6STR K6STR K<\/span><\/p> Sometimes, chaser will end their message with a TU or GL instead of BK or K<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n There are many abbreviations in CW which arose to make things easier or quicker. It is almost its own language! Here are some common ones:<\/span><\/p> DE <\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>from<\/span><\/p> TU<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>thank you<\/span><\/p> GL<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>good luck<\/span><\/p> ES<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>\u201cand\u201d — TU ES GL means \u201cthank you and good luck\u201d<\/span><\/p> TNX<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>thanks<\/span><\/p> E E <\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>dit dit = bye-bye! <\/span><\/p> UR<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>you are. Sometimes people run the U and R together into one character<\/span><\/p> R R<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>roger roger<\/span><\/p> GM <\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>good morning<\/span><\/p> GA<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>good afternoon<\/span><\/p> GE<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>good evening<\/span><\/p> BK<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>when sent at the end of a message, it means \u201cback to you\u201d<\/span><\/p> \t<\/span><\/span>When sent at the beginning of a message it means \u201cback to me\u201d <\/span><\/p> \t<\/span><\/span>Typically used when there are quick messages going back and forth.<\/span><\/p> \t<\/span><\/span>You\u2019ll hear it a lot on SOTA exchanges. Not everyone uses it, though.<\/span><\/p> Sometimes you just have to assume when they finished their message<\/span><\/p> Sometimes the BK is sent as two letters, and sometimes as one character all run<\/span><\/p> together as indicated by the underline. <\/span><\/p> K<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>\u201cover\u201d<\/span><\/p> AGN<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>again \u2013 please send your last message again<\/span><\/p> QSL<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>I acknowledge your message<\/span><\/p> QRS<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>please reduce speed (slow down your code speed)<\/span><\/p> QRL?<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>Is this frequency in use?<\/span><\/p> 73 <\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>best regards<\/span><\/p> AS<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>\u201cwait\u201d . The A and S are run together as one character. <\/span><\/p> I\u2019ll send this a couple of times if I need the chasers to stand by (e.g. mast fell over, etc). <\/span><\/p> S2S<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>summit to summit<\/span><\/p> FB<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>\u201cfine business\u201d means very good or excellent as in: <\/span><\/p> TNX FB QSO – thanks for the awesome contact<\/span><\/p> RST<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>signal report, stands for \u201creadability, strength, tone\u201d. CW signal reports are 3 numbers.<\/span><\/p> \t<\/span><\/span>The first two are just like on SSB (e.g. 59), and the last number is the tone.<\/span><\/p> \t<\/span><\/span>The tone number is almost always a \u201c9\u201d, meaning perfect tone. <\/span><\/p> \t<\/span><\/span>So a strong signal report would be : 599<\/span><\/p> \t<\/span><\/span>Because 9s take longer to send, people very often replace them with an \u201cN\u201d<\/span><\/p> \t<\/span><\/span>So instead of 599, you\u2019ll hear 5NN<\/span><\/p> RST?<\/span>\t<\/span><\/span>what is my signal report?<\/span><\/p> A great way to get practice CW is to chase SOTA. You already know the activator call sign from seeing their spot. You just have to be able to recognize your own call sign when they come back to you. You can use your phone to record the audio and play it back at your leisure.<\/span><\/p> People will generally assume that you can copy what is being sent to you at the same speed as you are sending. So, don\u2019t send too fast! People will usually slow down for you. Sometimes though, it may take them a bit to find the setting to change the code speed. You\u2019ll often hear a combination of slightly slower code speed and bigger spaces between the letters. <\/span>Don\u2019t be afraid to send \u201cQRS\u201d if you need them to go slower. <\/span><\/p> When activating, it can sometimes be hard to copy a call sign. Sometimes if a bunch of chasers call at once, they all just blur together. Sometimes, it is just one station but there is noise or they are sending too fast for you to copy the call sign. One approach is to send the first character or two with a question mark: N6? After this, the caller will send their full call either once or twice, at which point you can pick up a couple more characters and send it with a question mark again and keep going like that until you get the full call sign. If you are worried about your callsign copy skills, try N1CLC\u2019s callsign copy practice <\/span>HERE<\/span><\/a>. We have more info on improving your CW skills at <\/span>W6SOTA.org\/cw<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":2097,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2092","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2092\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w6sota.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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