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Mike Smith VE9AA

Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

I have very much enjoyed the recent flurry of posts wrt the KPA1500 (well
done Elecraft).

One semi-related thing I have noticed. (simply due to the sheer volume of
posts this weekend I suppose)

There are one or two fellas who consistently post (often MANY times a day)
without so much as a name or callsign attached to their posts/emails.

One can do a google search of their email and posts on other ham radio sites
and eventually figure out who there are, but I find it very annoying to
constantly see (often) one or two lines emails, comments and/or questions
without a name and better yet, any callsign attached. I am not talking
about occasionally forgetting.

I am talking about constantly.

Are you ashamed of your name or call? Are you simply trolls?

Anyways. A very happy K3 owner here. Now I am thinking about a KPA500 in the
car and down the road maybe a KPA1500 on the desk.

Thanks all !

Mike VE9AA

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Clay Autery

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

I dig ambition... Heck, keep in touch on the M/P KPA500.

73,

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On 4/22/2017 8:31 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
> Anyways. A very happy K3 owner here. Now I am thinking about a KPA500 in the
> car and down the road maybe a KPA1500 on the desk.

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Wes Stewart-2

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

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Hmm. Speaking of trolls.

Name and call embedded in email address.

On 4/22/2017 6:31 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:

> I have very much enjoyed the recent flurry of posts wrt the KPA1500 (well
> done Elecraft).
>
> One semi-related thing I have noticed. (simply due to the sheer volume of
> posts this weekend I suppose)
>
>
>
> There are one or two fellas who consistently post (often MANY times a day)
> without so much as a name or callsign attached to their posts/emails.
>
>
>
> One can do a google search of their email and posts on other ham radio sites
> and eventually figure out who there are, but I find it very annoying to
> constantly see (often) one or two lines emails, comments and/or questions
> without a name and better yet, any callsign attached. I am not talking
> about occasionally forgetting.
>
>
>
> I am talking about constantly.
>
>
>
> Are you ashamed of your name or call? Are you simply trolls?
>
>
>
> Anyways. A very happy K3 owner here. Now I am thinking about a KPA500 in the
> car and down the road maybe a KPA1500 on the desk.
>
>
>
> Thanks all !
>
>
>
> Mike VE9AA
>

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Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

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It makes little sense to make a signature with a call sign when most
people outside of amateur radio would have no idea what it is?

There is no need for a signature when the name is already in the sent field.

If it matters then simply send a polite e-mail asking the person what their call is.
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Don Wilhelm

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

Not too many reading posts on this reflector who do not know what a
callsign is. It is part of reflector courtesy IMHO.

I do not include my callsign on non ham reflector posts, nor do I sign
with '73'. In other words, I do not have a signature file that attaches
automatically - easy enough to do it manually.

In my opinion relying on the email address for identification is not
sufficient - so many email addresses are cryptic and convey little
information.

I am proud of my call, and have had it since I moved to Maryland in 1969
when I had to change it from W8DLB.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/23/2017 2:32 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
>
>
> It makes little sense to make a signature with a call sign when most
> people outside of amateur radio would have no idea what it is?
>
> There is no need for a signature when the name is already in the sent field.
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Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT-2

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

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Given the number of free mail services in the world, and the number of
people who complain about excessive mail from the list, it seems fairly
obvious that getting another free account and using that would sort the
clutter.

Putting your call as part of your name on that account solves most issues.

... and the signature on that account can have callsign, grid square,
whatever else you might wish.

73 -- Lynn

On 4/23/2017 11:32 AM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
> It makes little sense to make a signature with a call sign when most
> people outside of amateur radio would have no idea what it is?
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k6dgw

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

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I use a little add-on for T-bird called QuickText [free]. You can have
any number of signatures and/or canned items that go into the message
wherever you wish. I'm sure there are others just like it for other
email clients.

It just seems like common courtesy. I include my location because we
moved from 40+ years in CA in 2015, and I'm still a "six" in
"seven-land". Then again, some folks write things I'm sure they'd
rather not have their name/call identified with. [:-)

73,

Fred ("Skip") K6DGW
Sparks NV USA
Washoe County DM09dn

On 4/23/2017 11:49 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote:

> Not too many reading posts on this reflector who do not know what a
> callsign is. It is part of reflector courtesy IMHO.
>
> I do not include my callsign on non ham reflector posts, nor do I sign
> with '73'. In other words, I do not have a signature file that
> attaches automatically - easy enough to do it manually.
>
> In my opinion relying on the email address for identification is not
> sufficient - so many email addresses are cryptic and convey little
> information.
>
> I am proud of my call, and have had it since I moved to Maryland in
> 1969 when I had to change it from W8DLB.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 4/23/2017 2:32 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
>>
>>
>> It makes little sense to make a signature with a call sign when most
>> people outside of amateur radio would have no idea what it is?
>>
>> There is no need for a signature when the name is already in the sent
>> field.
>

Rick WA6NHC-2

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

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I would point out Harry, that yours, is not there in the signature nor
the address. It comes through as: [hidden email]

It is LONG been the case that a name (and on ham groups) signature is
proper netiquette since the name may not match the email address of
"[hidden email]"

Rick nhc

On 4/23/2017 11:32 AM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:

>
> It makes little sense to make a signature with a call sign when most
> people outside of amateur radio would have no idea what it is?
>
> There is no need for a signature when the name is already in the sent field.
>
>
> If it matters then simply send a polite e-mail asking the person what their call is.
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Kevin - K4VD

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

Really?
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Dean L

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

In reply to this post by Don Wilhelm

I see many new guys on here who constantly dont sign there posts/ name or
call.
Probably of the paranoid...
I personally take offense, be proud!
I'm proud to be a "code" extra, passed my general in front of an fcc ...
at 13 years old.
Advanced and extra at the VEC . Woo-hoo.

I'm proud of my call (and name) also in my email address.
But I guess in the big picture who cares. Just a courtesy I guess.

73 all
Dean LaClair K2WW

On Apr 23, 2017 2:50 PM, "Don Wilhelm" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Not too many reading posts on this reflector who do not know what a
> callsign is. It is part of reflector courtesy IMHO.
>
> I do not include my callsign on non ham reflector posts, nor do I sign
> with '73'. In other words, I do not have a signature file that attaches
> automatically - easy enough to do it manually.
>
> In my opinion relying on the email address for identification is not
> sufficient - so many email addresses are cryptic and convey little
> information.
>
> I am proud of my call, and have had it since I moved to Maryland in 1969
> when I had to change it from W8DLB.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 4/23/2017 2:32 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> It makes little sense to make a signature with a call sign when most
>> people outside of amateur radio would have no idea what it is?
>>
>> There is no need for a signature when the name is already in the sent
>> field.
>>
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Bill K9YEQ

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

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I do use my callsign and do use signature files included in the desktop program Outlook. But then I do the PC stuff for a part time living... to buy Elecraft toys!

73,
Bill
K9YEQ

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From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Don Wilhelm
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 1:49 PM
To: Harry Yingst <[hidden email]>; [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

Not too many reading posts on this reflector who do not know what a callsign is. It is part of reflector courtesy IMHO.

I do not include my callsign on non ham reflector posts, nor do I sign with '73'. In other words, I do not have a signature file that attaches automatically - easy enough to do it manually.

In my opinion relying on the email address for identification is not sufficient - so many email addresses are cryptic and convey little information.

I am proud of my call, and have had it since I moved to Maryland in 1969 when I had to change it from W8DLB.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/23/2017 2:32 PM, Harry Yingst via Elecraft wrote:
>
>
> It makes little sense to make a signature with a call sign when most
> people outside of amateur radio would have no idea what it is?
>
> There is no need for a signature when the name is already in the sent field.
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Bob Nielsen-4

Re: Signing your posts, KPA1500, KPA500

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My call is embedded in the email address twice!

Unfortunately, some email clients hide the addresses from view. I never
understood why that is, but I don't use any of those clients.

On 4/23/17 9:59 AM, Wes Stewart wrote:

> Hmm. Speaking of trolls.
>
> Name and call embedded in email address.
>
> On 4/22/2017 6:31 AM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
>> I have very much enjoyed the recent flurry of posts wrt the KPA1500
>> (well
>> done Elecraft).
>>
>> One semi-related thing I have noticed. (simply due to the sheer
>> volume of
>> posts this weekend I suppose)
>>
>>
>> There are one or two fellas who consistently post (often MANY times a
>> day)
>> without so much as a name or callsign attached to their posts/emails.
>>
>>
>> One can do a google search of their email and posts on other ham
>> radio sites
>> and eventually figure out who there are, but I find it very annoying to
>> constantly see (often) one or two lines emails, comments and/or
>> questions
>> without a name and better yet, any callsign attached. I am not talking
>> about occasionally forgetting.
>>
>>
>> I am talking about constantly.
>>
>>
>> Are you ashamed of your name or call? Are you simply trolls?
>>
>>
>> Anyways. A very happy K3 owner here. Now I am thinking about a KPA500
>> in the
>> car and down the road maybe a KPA1500 on the desk.
>>
>>
>> Thanks all !
>>
>>
>> Mike VE9AA
>>
>
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