CQ RC CQ RC for Real Conversation cq, cw, morse code, amateur radio, ragchew, rag chew, real conversation Gan Uesli Starling 2015-2019, Gan Uesli Starling CQ RC For use when seeking a real conversation (aka rag chew).
A meetup where no one does more than hand out business cards of identical boilerplate info makes for a very dull party indeed ... regardless with whom, no matter from where. How is it different when the same happens over the air? Such is the frustration for many of us, who contrarywise, turn on our rigs in fervent hope of discovering a new friend. That hope is dashed each time a QSO bruskly is closed off with “ 73 TU dit-dit ” after only a single exchange. Such QSOs as that provide satisfaction equal to a p
Some nights it happens that boilerplate QSO responses fully obstruct all opportunity for even so much as a single genuine conversation. I end up turning off the rig wondering why I bothered at all. I and those like me long for a way to politely fend off such replies as will prove unsatisfyingly short.