[CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 88, Issue 50

[B. Scott Andersen]

You know, the word "IN" is only    dit dit     DAH dit.

You could send NE1RD in MA, for example. The merits are:
* shorter
* don't need to go to Wikipedia to look up what the new @ sign shortcut is in Morse.

Just sayin... {grin}

-- Scott (NE1RD)


On Apr 29, 2010, at 3:00 PM, cq-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:08:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: N7DF <n7df at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] what we really need
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Message-ID: <855298.15381.qm at web36104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> 
> A CW character for "forward slash"
> ?
> Instead of? DAH DI DI DAH DIT? use DI DAH DI DI DAH? DIT to show a unique status for a station 
> ?
> Or how about using the?@ character to show you are "at" a location?
> ?
> ?DI DAH DAH DI DAH DIT
> ?
> ?
> See this Wikipedia page for other possible characters 
> ?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code#Modern_International_Morse_Code

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