John Smith wrote:
Roger beeps are considered VERY bad behavior when used on ham bands.
Indeed, the only place I have ever seen them used is by truck drivers on
the CB band.

Roger beeps are actually used a lot on VHF SSB here in EU,
and they nicely show what an inefficient mode SSB is. Hardly
a VHF contest goes by, when I do NOT hear a station in SSB
calling me, where everything I can clearly copy is the
rogerbeep

73 & CW4ever,
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Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK * Dresden, Germany * http://fkurz.net/