Ham Radio Help Desk

Last night I had a nice QSO with a fellow using the Olivia digital mode.

What surprised me was the way he called CQ.

Olivia seems kind of new, but established procedures seem to exist at least on this site…

http://hflink.com/olivia/

…suggesting the typical calling Olivia modes are 500/16 and 1000/32.

It took me a while to figure out this fellow was calling using Olivia 250/8 and on a frequency not posted in the above link.

Question:

Is there a “formal” set of good Olivia habits or are we pretty much free to use links like above as guidance for good practice?

John

I made my very first Olivia QSO tonight. It was a bit daunting, but I took the time to study a little about the standard, already had MixW rigged up with the Olivia DLL, listened around a bit on 20 meters then 40, figured out where to call CQ and just did it.

It was not even two minutes before a ham came back to my Olivia 16/500 call on one of the 40 meter calling frequencies.
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