  Sebastian, W4AS w4as at bellsouth.net Sun Oct 2 12:09:26 PDT
2011  When I got back on the birds a few years ago, I was
surprised as to the exchanges commonly made while a 'rare' grid
was on.  Here's the format commonly used when a 'rare' grid or
country, etc. is on:  "CQ W4AS Echo Lima 84" W4AS, W4AS this is
W1ABC" "W1ABC this is W4AS in Echo Lima 84" Roger W4AS, thanks
for Echo Lima 84, I'm in Fox Nancy 20 "QSL W1ABC in Fox Nancy
20, this is W4AS in Echo Lima 84"  First, there is no reason why
anyone should repeat the call sign of the station in the 'rare'
grid during a pileup.  And sending the grids phonetically over
and over is a waste of time as well.  The only grid that's
important in the above exchange, is the 'rare' grid, the others
aren't.  Why don't we use a modified form of the exchanges that
are commonly used on HF?  "CQ W4AS Echo Lima 84" "the station
with ABC come again" "W1ABC thanks, QRZ" "W2ABC I have you, QRZ"
"W3ABC you're in the log; W4AS Echo Lima 84 QRZ"  These
exchanges are common on H