On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:02:24 -0700, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Yep, and carried over onto radiotelegraphy mostly for noting the end of the >press sent to ships, etc. > >I've always used "R" to denote "yes". That's what we used on military CW, >and I've heard and used it on the ham bands for many, many years. During a >CW contact when I had excellent copy I'll often start my transmission with R >R R DE AC7AC...denoting that copy was "FB" and allowing the important delay >for those stations who have switches to throw when going from TX to RX. > >Ron AC7AC > >-----Original Message----- >I believe "30" was more commonly used in the press >wire field and indicates "end" or "end of article". > >73! Ken Kopp - K0PP > [email protected] [snip] In the last year or so I've begun to hear a lot of CW op's sending EN to the other station when it is turned back to them. Is this something new or just a cool LID's way to send R for Roger? Tom, N5GE [email protected] K3 #806, K3 #1055, PR6, XV144, XV432, KRC2, W1 and other small kits. 2 W2's on order 1 K144XV on order http://www.n5ge.com http://www.swotrc.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
