I agree with others that on the amateur bands we use R or EN for yes. Thanks
for the correction.
David
G3UNA
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From: Lee Buller
To: David Cutter ; Elecraft Reflector
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Shorthand
Actually
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I agree with others that on the amateur bands we use R or EN for yes.
Thanks for the correction.
David
G3UNA
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Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
Back in 1946 -1948 ish, C for yes, and R or EN for Received and
understood was used on the amateur bands. The same practice was used by my
school's cadet signal corps and the army in South Africa during and after
WWII.
C also means affirmative in the
David:
Ahh, then you dont speak Spanish, eh?
Its INTERNATIONAL Morse code for a reason...
C, well,maybe for Confirm, but SI in Spanish means YES
DE (deh) means From in Spanish.
OK, on to work things and away from fun ham radio things.
-Lu-W4LT-
Many of these bits come from Latin on which all the Romance languages
based. In Latin DE means coming from or an origin.
The use of the Charlie letter flag for signaling between ships has meant
yes probably long before Morse came into use on the high seas. I suspect
that's why C in Morse also
Can anyone refer me to a list of commonly used shorthand for CW?
Thanks in advance!
--
Frank KD8FIP
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Here's a good list of CW abbreviations. I am sure there are others.
73, Bruce N1RX
http://www.kent-engineers.com/abbreviations.htm
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And here's another list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations
For the record, T for zero is not really an abbreviation but a modern
affectation caused by the limitations of keyers. It should be a longer than
normal dash which is American Morse for a zero. T for zero works, if
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Frank MacDonell kd8...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone refer me to a list of commonly used shorthand for CW?
Whilst browsing the results of a Google search for simply cw
shorthand (which, by the way, returned, as its top result, a
comprehensive list in PDF format), I
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From: Bruce Beford bruce.bef...@myfairpoint.net
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Here's a good list of CW abbreviations. I am sure there are others.
73, Bruce N1RX
http://www.kent-engineers.com/abbreviations.htm
I can see how c = yes, derived from confirm = cfm, but when I was a marine
op it was y = yes
David
G3UNA
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From: Bruce Beford bruce.bef...@myfairpoint.net
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Here's
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And here's another list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code_abbreviations
For the record, T for zero is not really an abbreviation but a modern
affectation caused
I believe 30 was more commonly used in the press
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Actuallythe c come from Spanish. At least, that is what I always thought
se senior or yes mister
Lee K0WA
Making up life as I go
:)
I can see how c = yes, derived from confirm = cfm, but when I was a marine
op it was y = yes
David
G3UNA
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
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:02:24 -0700, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz
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
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
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.
I have to add that nobody ever understands when I use 'c' for 'yes'. When a dx
station
struggles and finally gets my call right, if
Radio Amateur N5GE wrote:
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?
This is the same guy who thinks that the 'general call to all stations' is
snip
CW ops use this long inter-element delay between E and N (to make R)
as a point of emphasis. I guess this means Very Good R. This has
been true at least at least since I was first licensed (1972). At
that time, electronic keyers were fairly new (and/or expensive,) and
bugs were often
Dave W7AQK wrote:
The one thing I think that list doesn't make clear is that some letters are
intentionally run together, with no separation, such as BT. Another was
the example of HH, which really should just be 8 dits run together, to
indicate an error. A third example is AS. In print,
I have also use R as an affirmative. I use to use C in my traffic handling
days of the 60s and 70s. We could also talk about QN or Q signals as well,
but that is another thread.
Now, the EN for R I think came from my old Novice days to add emphasis that I
did copy perfectly, something I
EN was used for an artistic R in he 1940's. I heard them and
occasionally used it.
Bud, K9ZT
Radio Amateur N5GE wrote:
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:02:24 -0700, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz
wrote:
Yep, and carried over onto radiotelegraphy mostly for noting the end of the
press sent to
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