The most important piece of information you should be giving out is your signal report. After that, you Name and QTH. Have in reserve some snippets of other information so you don’t hesitate; radio, antenna and power (for instance) – some folks like a weather report too. Callum.
* Calling CQ Check List *
_ _ _ _ _ Hello!
Your Signal Report is _ _
My name is _ _ _
QTH is _ _ _
back to you _ _ _
Thank you for information
Radio is _ _ _
Antenna is _ _ _
Running _ _ _ Watts
back to you _ _ _
Nice to meet you – I will see who else I can contact today. Thank you very much for anwering me. Back to you for final please _ _ _
Thanks and 73! CQ CQ _ _ _
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