so mike shy is actually all about what the hell am i going to say it's not about being shy if
you knew exactly what to say it occurs to me that when i'm live streaming particularly on a friday
and i will invite is there any like m7 6s or threes and that's the 10 watt foundation license
maybe i'm on 80 meters and 40 meters day time i'm not expecting any dx there i mean i know sometimes
on 20 meters we get through to rolly set said l1bqt and that sort of thing i'll encourage those
quieter stations less loud you know low power stations periodically normally once a livestream
anyway and a couple of times i've had a caller who clearly has got what i can only assume is
mike shy now i had mike shy i had i couldn't keep the microphone what the hell am i gonna say right
so i'm gonna tell you what to say and so you get over it right so for a start off let's just as a
technique watch your power meter when you talk and make sure it's kicking you know if you're you're
saying your call sign your m7 abc make sure the power meter is getting at least kicking all right
because if you are off there nobody here if you take off nobody will hear you you see
just the way it is so we need to um speak loudly that's number one so you might be shy
but we're gonna have to talk loudly during this now amateur radio the only thing that people
want to know is their signal report that's it okay if you want to give him anything else that's fine
so we will hear dl dl1 abc and he's calling cq and you decide that you're going to break your duck
this is it in for a penny in for a pound you're going to give your call sign and he
does get back to you and they're a bit terrified all right so you get you call
you say you kill the microphone you watch a power meter or callum said m seven a b c
now what's he gonna say he's gonna repeat your call sign because he wants to make sure
he's got it right m seven abc hello it's uh fritz here and two for delta
your firemen seven here in dusseldorf my name is you know fritz whatever it's back to you
now you're terrified again aren't you just copying okay because actually all that has happened is
he's given you a a name he's given you a signal report now you might not know where dusseldorf is
but make a note of it anyway okay so all you have to do is repeat back to him what he said to you
uh hello fritz uh my name's ben you're five and nine here
speak loudly keep watching that parameter and i'm in manchester
uh fritz thank you very much for coming back to me have a lovely day that's it that's all you need
to do okay then you always do his callsign first and then mine later and how you think it because
i hear people saying m7 abc 2 dl1 abc i don't know if that's sort of air traffic control but
you always say their call sign first dl1 abc effectively you're missing out the words this is
you're missing out this is dl1abc this is a b m m seven abc all right that's what you
do dl1abc this is a b m seven abc 73 thank you thank you all right be nice and polite
quite often people make little funny notes in their computer log
they'll say you know they'll write in your name ben and they might say
uh really nice guy things like that when you come back they'll give you a lot more courtesy
you know six months time a year's time you might bump into them on another frequency whatever else
so mike shy is actually all about what the hell am i going to say it's not about being shy if
you knew exactly what to say if somebody said all i want you to do is keep the microphone and read
that out you'd be able to wouldn't you i might look like i'm listening to you but in my head
i play my drums that's all for today thanks a lot i will see you on the next one bye for now