I'm not sure that stroke is much better. Certainly using slash in a long contest such as CQWW is asking for trouble :-)
73 Stewart G3RXQ On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 08:44:26 +0000 (GMT), alan wrote: > Greetings all > > The word slash has another unfortunate slang meaning in UK English as shown > by an event at an ITU Radiocommunication Meeting. > > As can happen the floor was getting quite involved in the fine meaning of > text and punctuation. Should we have a parenthesis, a colon, a semi-colon, a > hyphen or a slash? One of the UK delegates on the top table whispered to the > ITU Counsellor that while this was being argued, he was "going for a slash". > Unfortunately the Counsellor's microphone was left open. All those listening > to the (english speaking) speaker direct heard the comment as did all the > interpreters. Needless to say half the meeting momentarily collapsed in > laughter, but the best bit was the interpreters trying to explain the joke to > all the delegates who had selected their own language on their headphones. > > 73 Alan G0HiQ > (with apologies if any offence was caused) > > --------- >>Message: 20 >>Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:38:12 +0100 >>From: David Pratt <[email protected]> >>Clause 2.3 of the CEPT Licence says .... > >>> snip > "2.3 When transmitting in a visited country the licence holder must use > his national call sign preceded by the call sign prefix of the visited > country as indicated in Appendices II and IV. The call sign prefix and > the national call sign must be separated by the character "/" > (telegraphy) or the word "stroke" (telephony). For a mobile amateur > radio station the national call sign must be followed by the characters > "/M" (telegraphy) or the word "mobile" (telephony). For a portable > amateur radio station the national call sign must be followed by the > characters "/P" (telegraphy) or the word "portable" (telephony)." > << > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
