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How I can start....
Hello Folks, this as "a few starting steps" for newbyes, by my personal "how i do it". It's a sort of "tips" so please, get it "as is" 
First thing to do is : listen . Only by listening you can learn "what to do".
ALWAYS be polite, and wait your turn.
If you call over one thousand persons well...it's only a waste of time.
Wait your turn and listen for a "free" time.
Don't call like "one hour" as unfortunately many operators do...Call and listen. If you repeat you callsign etc for ages withouts a "free" listening spot probably no one will contact you. Nor I.
Again, ALWAYS be polite and WAIT your turn.
After your call, tell everyone bout your listening frequency BUT previously ask that frequency by : Is this frequency in use ?
ALWAYS ask if the frequency is already in use. And be polite.
Try to start a sort of "friendly qso", not only the r/s report, weather and rigs...
Obviously try to be "professional" but hey, we'll make new radio friends
If someone call over you well, be patient, maybe someone isn't listening you for some reason. What to do ? Well easy ! Be polite and call again .
Last thing to NOT do is the CRAPPY OOOOOLA OOOOOOOLA ....and now ill try to explain why :
This useless OOOOLA noisey and useless thing was started by Italians long, long time ago.
No one will be interested bout your OLLA signal peak, cause when you talk you can't get that signal peak so...useless.
It's same when someone whistle for ages... ( haha i always ask if someone lost it's dog )
Tune your Antenna ->rig OUT of frequency, DON'T tune over a already started QSO cause no one will like your jamming....And when you need to tune up your radio system, always ask if the frequency is in use.
Don't tune by whistle on SSB, just do it by am, fm with low power...5W is enough, don't tune with 100 W.
Obviously i'm NOT rascist against italians for the "OOOLA", it's just a non-sense thing...to NOT do.
Ah yes, i'm italian.
( sorry for bad english...so be polite with me, hehe )
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Comments are always appreciated
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Re: How I can start....
Very good advice and please, no OOOLA!!
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Re: How I can start....
Good post, I agree, the oollaa's are irritating and also if somebody shouts coca cola afterwards, how old is that joke?, as for those that whistle continuously and louder to watch their needle going up the power scale - I think they need their heads read, and why does it take some people so long to tune up? It cant be that hard to get an antenna tuned on 11m....
73s all.... 
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Re: How I can start....
Agreed - any antenna worth its wire should have a low SWR from one end of the band to the other anyhow as the reqired bandwidth is so narrow.
If it's a linear amplifier being tuned, whistling on SSB will result in an incorrect tune as the power supply rail will fall further than with speech, affecting the tune point.
Just a carrier about mid-power is ideal.
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Re: How I can start....
very wise words from 1FB175.
radio etiquete is what is missing on 11m band, everyone whistling, calling over each other,hola hola coca cola, and donkey noises from norhtern espana. can you imagine what it will be like when we are sunspot maximum, and every jackass in the world wants a piece????
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Re: How I can start....
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26fb010 wrote:
very wise words from 1FB175.
radio etiquete is what is missing on 11m band, everyone whistling, calling over each other,hola hola coca cola, and donkey noises from norhtern espana. can you imagine what it will be like when we are sunspot maximum, and every jackass in the world wants a piece????
Yes..i can imagine cause years ago it was the same chaos 
BUT ! I can tell You that the 11m band is one of "last" WITH etiquette....believe me, there's the same and more "noises", jamming, nonsense on regular bands...
As I said on my topic I'm very sorry cause italians...well, not all are bad operators...but some are. I always try to be polite and gentle and well it work
LOTS of "whistlers" are the new licensed, i mean new OM ....they started on 11m band and now they make noises.
My opinion is : we need the CW test again, to do a sort of "filters" by licenses.
lotsa bad operators that you can read on 0-30Mhz is cause no more cw, so special licensed can work on it now.
Sigh...
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