On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack@gmail.com> wrote:
> I heard one station sending to another one (in CW) something like "I NEED
> THE LAST TWO DIGITS OF THE YEAR YOU FIRST GOT YOUR HAM LICENSE" at about 15
> wpm, fairly high up in the 40m band. Now, THAT is patience!
> I guess to those of us who have been at this for decades, sending CK? or
> PR?
> is old hat. I guess the whole set of abbreviations used in CW is just
> something a newcomer has to learn.
> How would a newcomer ever figure out that "ES" means "AND"?
>
>
I still haven't figured out what CK? and PR? are supposed to request...
Andy
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