Introducing the

Traffic  Quality Report
 

 

Answer this simple question:  
What is to fear from having one's traffic
Peer Reviewed?

 

Nothing!   One should welcome having his traffic critiqued by any CW operator,  regardless of whether the reviewer is a competent traffic-handler or a member of the current silent QRU-majority wishing to pass an opinion.  

   

Simply by critiquing traffic,  then providing feedback in a brief and easily-interpreted report,
at least five significant goals could be achieved:  (there may well be more, use your imagination)
 
1.   Establishment of support network for anyone wishing to become a serious traffic handler;
2.   Improve the awareness of traffic-handling protocols and standards;
3.   Raise the overall quality of all traffic types; 
4.   Discover the subjects which result in most responses from 'trivia' questions.
5.   Attract new traffic handlers by the simple act of requesting their input.
6.   To make so-called traffic nets live up to their names by actually passing traffic -  pretty basic.

 

TQR  encourages the principles of free speech and democracy,  but reports must comply with the accepted standards of Amateur Radio,  meaning they shall not contain abusive or offensive language.

All such reports are unofficial and subjective, consisting only of  reviewer's opinion.   If a report is deemed unfair or inaccurate,  simply reply with a request for clarification, thus progressing the goals of TQR.

 

TQR  User Manual

 

Who may participate?
Anyone capable of reading and sending Morse Code,  and preferably has an understanding of the standards for which a traffic handler should be striving.   
 

To whom may one send a TQR?   
Send your TQR directly to any traffic initiator or responder to whom you have been listening. Some operators fulfil both the roles,  that of initiator and as a responder to others' traffic.  



What media can be used for reporting?    
Preferably TQRs should be sent during live on-air traffic nets,  in CW.     Email is also acceptable. 
TQR recipients reserve the right to relay your report on air for the purpose of subject continuity,   and considering that an increase traffic count of one of TQR's primary goals.
 

Is there a TQR protocol?   
You bet, two of them actually:    1.  A brief, one-line approach for those who are not familiar with formal traffic handling;    2.   A full 'telegram' approach for those already in the business  ... or for new-comers wishing to dive right in.   The two TQR formats are described  in the user manual

 

 

TQR  User Manual      

Rapid access URL:    bit.ly/zltqr

 

Possibly the funniest QSL card ever handled by the US Postal Service. 
We could do much better by returning to the old days of honest
reporting when if there were no spaces, rather than faking it like
everyone does now,  one would feel free to politely send,
I CANNOT CPI U OM PSE INCLUDE SPACES
Honest reporting is the only way standards will ever improve!

 

 

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