Quote Originally Posted by mw0uzo View Post
If the roger beep was good enough for NASA then its good enough for me. IMO all this frowning on stuff is stupid. Ohhh, you shouldn't use a roger beep, you'll look like a retard. No wonder people double with each other all the time, because its never certain that you know when someone has finished speaking! Of course there's the callsigns and handovers etc, but I'd rather hear a quick beep than alpha bravo blah blah blah kilo nine blah blah blah zzzzzzz

I'm tempted to make a roger beep that quickly says DE MW0UZO K in fast CW.
I'm not sure how things are in the UK or Europe but in the US, most repeaters have a courtesy tone that sounds when the carrier drops on the input frequency. That makes roger beeps not only unnecessary, but annoying as well.