[AMRadio] What's up with the amfone.net thing

[manualman at juno.com]

Look back to any of the ham radio magazines, Letters to the Editor,
Reader Correspondence, etc., of the 30's through the 60's, and you'll
find many usages of ham radio acronyms and abbreviations in the writings.
Rolling to the 70's there was the wide usage of CB slang and
abbreviations in writings and even songs. The fact that today's older
generation requires them to carry a translation table around in order to
understand the writings of today's generation probably shows how out of
touch they are with today's generation. It's always fun to contact a
"todays' generation person" on CW, that's texting savvy. It's probably as
close encryption as you can get, without using any additional tools.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:30:13 -0500 rbethman <rbethman at comcast.net>
writes:
> The biggest difference is that the kids are starting to WRITE that 
> way!  
> I hear it directly from the current teachers.
> 
> That is a HUGE difference from Amateur Operators of the older age 
> group 
> of say 50 and more.
> 
> Bob N0DGN
> 
> On 1/13/2011 2:58 PM, manualman at juno.com wrote:
> > ROFL CU on AM
> > 73
> > wa2cwa
> > ps not a new thing - texting "thing" on CW has going on since its
> > beginnings
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:41:42 -0600 Rob 
> Atkinson<ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
> > writes:
> >> I think the texting thing is for people who have not learned how 
> to
> >> write a complete sentence, or do not know how to type.
> >>
> >> Rob
> 
>