Radar contact before squawk

Ooops, wrong newsgroup (since this is a VFR question). Putting that right.

"David Brooks" wrote in message
...
I learned something Friday night while getting in some night solo time. I
called Whidbey Approach for a few minutes of flight following and possibly
clipping their Class C, and the controller annonced radar contact, and
then
issued a squawk. I hadn't given my position (I wasn't too sure where I was
anyway :-) ). He apparently didn't find it necessary to talk to me after I
popped up with the discrete code.

I was probably the only VFR target in his entire airspace, so there was no
ambiguity. Still, question for the controllers, is it standard procedure
to
announce radar contact to an untagged target?

-- David Brooks