The asking chasers: ? and SOTA?

[GM4LLD]

@G8CPZ

I think a lot of hams don’t know many Q codes beyond the ones you hear every day (like QTH, QSY, QRM, etc) and therefore sending infrequently-used ones like QRX

We’ve been here before:

Do all CW operators know what the CW prosign KN means? (Part 1)

KN sent as “dah-di-dah-dah-dit” is an invitation for named station to transmit. Often it is sent when several stations are calling you and you have only understood a partial call from the mix. e.g. M?0??F KN invites MM0FMF to reply or MW0AAF or anything with letters matching. It would be wrong for GM4TOE to reply as he has no matches just as MW0HGY does not end with an F. I write as it would seem not all CW operators understand this. Which was why it took me 5mins to work HB9DAX with the Q…

I wouldn’t have described QRX as infrequently used, well not infrequently used by me. YMMV