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by KA3B on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
Obviously Mr. "do away with the code" Tech class hasn't worked much dx on the fone bands where you only hear someone asking for the dx stations call after the qso is supposed to be complete.

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by NA4IT on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
"Singing do a ditty ditty dumb ditty do"

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by GOODBUDDY on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
"Sending a Ditty Dumb Dumb Ditty is rude, annoying, and the sure sign of a Lid. Don't do it!" Neil: I hope you feel better getting this horrible thing off of your chest. Eham: Sheesh, this is about as trivial as it gets for articles. Perhaps if an article has a rant and rave slant to it then it shouldn't be considered for "front page".

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by W4EWJ on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
a lid is a lid...ssb or cw makes no difference. They are everywhere...bands are full of the stupid bastards...just getting worse. IMI to them means "gee I cant copy cw pls give me your c/s many times so eventualy I'll figure it out" ewj

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by NI0C on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
Neil, Thanks for posting this. Obviously W8CAR did not read or comprehend your article-- which was quite clear concerning a most obnoxious operating practice. I've heard it a thousand times or more. Sometimes when a spot shows up on the world-wide internet cluster, you'll hear the "?" on frequency, sent by someone who either can't copy the DX or doesn't know that the DX has already moved or QRT. There's no excuse whatsoever for this QRM from the clueless. 73 & thanks for V7 on 80m a while back! Chuck NI0C

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by KE4MOB on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
I've seen this a lot of times. I'll be calling CQ and I hear the Didi DaDah Didi. So I'll drop a "de" followed by my call. The other station sends "?" agn. Then I send my call once more V E R Y S L O W L Y. At this stage, it's obvious that the op at the other end is either a newbie and doesn't know how to send "QRS?" or is deaf. At any rate, I'll QRS and happily work the newbie in the hopes that he'll get better with time. But as far the deaf station...oh well, maybe next go-around.

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by KB7LYM on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
The secrets of Ditty Dumb dumb Ditty. One should be reminded that Amateur Radio as a whole is just a hobby. To make a definite observation I went to Professor Lupardi who is a genius on Radio Technology and asked him to give me a true answer about the Amateur Ham radio hobby. His answer was as follows: There is a very fine line between " Hobby " and " Mental illness." Also he stated as help to those sitting for hours without sleep and so involved with the Ditty Dumb Syndrom that they need sleepong pills to get some rest. But he added... Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. 73 KB7LYM

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by KR4WM on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
OK, ya got me! Usually, I am just dialing around, hear someone CQing, and will pause on their frequency. Sometimes I just catch the tail-end of their transmission while grasping for paper and pencil. (I was taught that the only "proper" way to do CW was pencil and paper.) I pause. I listen. I hear absolutely nobody going back to the caller. Only silence emanates from my speaker. After a minute, I wonder if the guy is still there or not? So I send "ditty dumb dumb ditty" to find out if the operator who was sending CQ a few moments ago is still on frequency. Sometimes he is, sometimes he isn't. In any event, a pleasurable exchange eventually takes place, and we both part company after having visited for awhile on the radio. Never heard anybody complain about this.... It's also quite useful at my slow rate of code to use instead of sending QRL? to see if a frequency is busy before calling CQ. I think it's better etiquette to send a short ? on top of a QSO-in-progress (at 5WPM) that you don't realize is taking place. I seldom operate full-break-in, so by the time I discover the frequency is in use, I will have covered up 10 to 15 seconds of someone's conversation if I send QRL?. But I can see how this would be very aggravating on a busy DX frequency. -KR4WM

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by K4JF on January 10, 2005	Mail this to a friend!
"I find it quicker to send the infamous "Ditty Dumb Dumb Ditty" after a word I have cloberred, than send the politically correct eight dits. " Eight dits is not "politically correct". Nothing infamous about it. It is the CORRECT way to say "I made an error and am resending". It is (very slightly) faster than sending "?". (Two dahs are longer than four dits.)

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