On Aug 6, 6:45 pm, Stephen wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:32:46 -0700, The Shadow wrote:
Ed -- The times they are a-changin'-- Bob Dylan

The disturbing part is trying to educate the new Hams with proper
traditional protocol -- lost cause -- Oh Well

As a new ham my self (licensed in March 2007) one thing that would help is
if the elmers out there would tell us when we are doing wrong or being
lids. But besides that I've been told that using "Break" should only be
reserved for emergencies.

Someone told you wrong. Using break is common practice and has been
for as long as I can remember.

That instead one should use "Contact".

I've never heard that before, except in the context of "No contact"
letting people know they couldn't reach the person they're trying and
are giving up.

This is only a personal thought but if the elmers help train the newbies
then things will get better. Its when the elmers just complain about them
and don't teach them is when things get worse. Now granted you can't
teach everyone.

Or they get it wrong and claim otherwise...

(BTW, rec.radio.amateur was moved to rec.radio.amateur.misc and
rec.radio.cb obsoleted alt.radio.cb some time ago...many servers don't
propagate or allow posts to those groups anymore).