how long do you call CQ for right as long as it takes now I recently did a video of guaranteeing
a result right on like 40 meters or something and I'm going to prove to you not right now if
you stay tuned to the to the channel I'm going to prove to you that we can actually make a contact
on a dummy load all right so I don't know what will be leaking out of the RG58 that I've recently
bought but um and the dummy load yeah probably Peter's RG58 will be leaking like mad but how long
to call CQ for so as long as it takes which is why it's really handy to have a little button you
can press to call CQ because I remember calling CQ when when I was in Bude not live streaming
I would just try oh early in the morning late at night some random band 12 meters and I'd call CQ
for up to 25 minutes I'll just stick it on repeat because you don't know when the band's gonna open
you don't know who's listening to you it takes as long as it takes so let's just take Ura
I mean I mean I suppose I am following up on the
I suppose I'm following up on the video of of how to guarantee a result the only thing I really
didn't cover is how long do you call that cq4 to guarantee your result frankly as long as it takes
if you think you can call CQ I mean if this is well this is one minute all right we'll split it
into four and it actually takes about 15 seconds to do a proper CQ I'm not going to do it for you
all right but it takes about 15 seconds you know hello CQ CQ well I said I was not going to do it
so I'm not going to but if you time it I mean it's at least eight seconds and if you do a reasonable
um CQ chord that's about 15 seconds isn't it it will be but by the time you got over and dropped
the key and everything else so there is you can see that there is 15 seconds if that's a minute
how long do you wait now frankly some people have complained online live stream you're not waiting
long enough if someone's going to come back the moment you say over at the end of your call
they will call instantly all right think about it
if you've heard of somebody going see girl this is Delta Limon I'm listening
you don't wait three seconds then put your call sign out you'll go straight away Won't
You So within one second you'll unless they're very very quiet I appreciate you go oh is that
somebody there you might wait a little bit longer in which case you would encourage them wouldn't
you you go again was that a Delta Lima I heard is that somebody in Germany a QR said please
nothing okay so you've waited that'll probably take five seconds and then you're off again okay
so there's your listening time and then you're off again and there's your listening time you're
off again so you can probably get about three CQ calls out in a minute couldn't you let's face it
so how many minutes are you gonna do this for well how much stamina have you got as long as you're
on a clear frequency and you want to guarantee a result I mean it's like I mean it's like fishing
isn't it now I'm not a fisherman but there's some people on the channel who fish you know
they don't say oh well I was fishing for five minutes I didn't get a bite and I went
home some people fish all blooming day I mean if I went on 10 meters and just
called CQ for a whole day do you think I'd get anybody yeah I probably would
and that that's the essence of all this it's you are a fisherman but you're on the you're
on the radio all right now on 40 meters after 20 minutes if you haven't got out then clearly
there's something wrong because someone is going to answer you or they'll get fed up with you
by the way if you notice on my live stream I will never transmit on say
7.170. I'm always on 67 or 73 I'm always two or three kilohertz away from a spot frequency and
you might wonder why the hell I'm doing that is because if in the skip I can't hear the guy in
Cyprus let's say all right or you're in one side of the USA and you've got someone else on the
other side of the USA the chances are everybody likes the round numbers 175 180 185 so go two
kilohertz away from that because you can't hear that skip but somebody be between the two will so
I'm just taking a blind chance here that in case there's someone on a spot frequency I'm just going
to go a tiny bit away from them and then that way the chances are I'm not stepping on anybody's toes
and some have you ever heard it where you get two people calling CQ and the C for it same frequency
but they're in different parts of the world I've heard that and it kind of puts you off and go well
if I give my call sign out which one's going to come back to me so that's why I'm not a big dxer
I'm big enough but I'll still steer away from like 170 175 things like that how long do I call CQ
for as long as it takes go fishing and have fun that's all I've got from that's all I have for
you today all right enjoy your radio call CQ as long as you want and have fun okay uh bye for now