If you are one of those thousand licensed ham radio operator or perhaps a SWL (short-wave listener), tuning up your rig to a specific frequency is an addictive treat. Be it at home base, mobile (in vehicle) or portable (carrying your rig to wherever you go), your hand will be itching to tune to your favourite frequency. I’m no exception. Since my rig been installed couple of weeks ago, my default radio (yes, that FM tuner radio with CD & cassette) is idle for quite sometimes. My rig is so viral. I just can’t stop switch it on once i got into my ride.
Having said that, i’m usually into frequency-scanning (Yes, listening to a frequency for a moment before switching to the other). After less than a month of listening & utilizing the amateur band, i can sense some ‘funny’ pattern of the stations. They usually using some common words & phrases in their communications, which i think, not necessary. BTW, i can understand their feeling. Talking with a PTT mic, where you know a whole lot of people are listening to you is quite challenging. You have a tendency of losing words quite number of time. So in covering up the conversation, the stations is using several word which u can listen to it tonnes of time during the conversation. I can roughly estimate that, the words are use at around 5-10 times in every 10 minutes. The word are as below (usually being use by Malay stations):
* …Itu macam cerita…
* …Macam itu….
* …Begitu diinfo…
Can’t believe me? You can experienced it by yourself. Turn on you rig, tune to 145.650 Mhz. This is 9M4RKW, a repeater-based communication. You can listen to the words that i mentioned above tonnes of time. 
No offense to anybody. I just love to observe patterns in live.
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