The practice of cut numbers dates back to WW2, maybe further. After that, it was a common practice on commercial circuits. But for some reason, I don't believe it was not picked up by the amateur community until much later, say the 80's or 90"s? The dah component was elongated, such as Daaah Dit =9; Daaah=0 or Dit Daaah for a 5, which emphasized it as a number when sending mixed alpha numeric code groups, such as V5FN9, and sometimes with numeric groups, where as a normal A (5) or N (9) would suffice. It may have been the operators call which to use. When using the Bug or a Keyer in Simi-Auto, I occasionally slip up and send a long N for a 9 in the signal report. Guess that dates me.
Carry-on KXBill > On Nov 28, 2004, at 7:08 AM, Dan Barker wrote: > > > Does A4 mean 14 in Spanish? I hear Zones of A4 from EA7 stations. My > > map > > says 14 but my Español es muy stinko. > > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
