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[João Costa > CT1FBF]

HamRadioNow: Do NOT Call CQ on Repeaters

Hams have been complaining about lack of activity on repeaters for
well over a decade

Gary Pearce KN4AQ writes: Way back in 2003 I created a cover of a
magazine I was editing (the SERA Repeater Journal) that spoofed the
ARRL's Now You're Talking license manual by changing the title to Now
You're Missing. See the art for this episode if it shows up in your
podcast feed. I also wrote an editorial about the phenomenon in that
issue.

14 years later and a ham poses the same question on Reddit: Where is
everybody? (I'm paraphrasing. No, I'm totally re-writing, but that's
the gist of it).
https://www.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/comments/
61a8fe/how_to_find_active_repeaters/

So I trot out my standard advice: make some noise. I even recommend
calling CQ, because that's almost guaranteed to get someone to
respond, if only to tell you that you're not supposed to call CQ on
repeaters.

I don't know who made up that rule, but they're wrong. I think it
happened back in the 60's and early 70's, when HF ops looked down
their long pointed noses at us FM ops as something less than 'real
hams.'
So in retaliation we eschewed their cherished practice of calling CQ.
That's my theory. 10-4?

I would have left it there, but then someone replied on Reddit that
they tried my advice, and it worked! That warranted a short show (if
24 minutes counts as short, and for HamRadioNow, it does).

AUDIO PODCAST VERSION: This is a talking-head show, and the only one
talking is mine. I show the magazine and the Reddit text on screen,
but I read it all to you. So this is that rare show where I'm thinking
directly about the audio-audience. And if I'm doing that, I must award
this show a Radio Rating of A-. The 'minus' is because I'm still
really proud of that Repeater Journal cover spoof. That was a couple
of hours of Photoshop, if I recall.

And BTW, I mis-speak the era that I was the RJ editor. I say 'early
70's', but it's really 'early 2000's'.

KN4AQ is 10-10 and 10-7.

Watch HRN 315: Do NOT Call CQ on Repeaters (Click Bait on Ham Radio Now)
https://youtu.be/1ADqe6vt0xE

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