As a high speed radio CW operator in the Army I was trained to slash a circle. No one said it was a slashed zero or a slashed letter 'O'. The shape was not important as long as the slash was there. We also slashed the letter 'Z' to distinguish it from the number '2', but as I have seen many times, we did not slash the number '7'.
Tom, N5GE - SWOT 3537 - Grid EM12jq ------------------------------------ Of course that practice was very important in the day of CW (and telegraph) hand-copied with pencil and paper. Block printing by hand at 20 WPM or so was just about my top speed and sometimes the shapes weren't quite so good as I'd have liked. I learned and used the slashed zero and "Z" to avoid ambiguity in all of my FCC exams. A few years later that practice came in handy in the Army for me too ;-) Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ 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
