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For Expert Village, I'm Kurt Glaser, N7QJM. On today's sessions we're talking about, there's
a certain protocol when you make contact on the ham radio. Typically what you'll do is
when you make contact; you identify who you are, who they are with call letters and call
signs, and then from there, you establish what the signal strengths are. And, for just
radio, for speaking, basically, it's just readability and signal strength and there
is actually a meter here on the rig, I'll see if I can zoom in real quick to the meter.
Yeah, there it is, the meter is right here. That's where the meter is and it tells you
actually what the signal strength is on the unit itself. Anyway, that is the piece right
there, we're going to pick up a conversation, just a real quick conversation of somebody
answering me back on my C-Q. So, we actually have somebody now. "WA7OB, this is Nancy 7,
Quebec, Juliet, Mexico. Fine business, thanks for coming back to my call, you are about
ten over nine into Redmond, Washington. My location is Redmond, Washington and my handle
or name is Kurt, Kilo United Romeo Tango. Back to you, give me your call one more time
for the log. Over." That's his call, that's his call; Tom. He's right by us, here. So,
there' is how you start a QSO, and you just start talking back and forth. They usually
identify, and you can hear him back here a little bit, he is identifying himself, where
he's located, what the signal strength is, and then usually talk about what type of gear
that we run in the shack itself. So, we are having a little conversation with Tom.