CHASE

Use the CHASE command to call a host who is on the air and start a QSO. Follow it with a position report within 5 minutes, and the OTA bot relays your callsign and grid square to the host.

Your position report must come from the same callsign and SSID that sent the chase. W1XYZ-5 chases, so W1XYZ-5 beacons, not W1XYZ or W1XYZ-9. A beacon from any other station does not satisfy the window.

See Make a contact for the whole QSO, step by step, and QSL for how the host confirms it.

You can leave the SSID off

CHASE K7ABC is the same command as CHASE K7ABC-6. A callsign runs one op at a time, so the callsign on its own is all the bot needs to find the op. That saves you two or three characters on every chase you thumb into a radio.

Every SSID form works too, so a callsign you copied straight off a CQ reply needs no editing.

Only the host’s SSID is optional. Your own still has to match, because your position report has to come from the exact station that sent the chase.

The short form

A message that opens with the callsign itself is the same command. It is the shortest chase there is, which is worth knowing when you are thumbing letters into a radio:

Both spellings are permanent. CHASE @K7ABC-6 is accepted as well, so nothing you learn here has to be unlearned later.

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