[CW] Morse for the @ sign

Sat, 6 Sep 2003 11:26:47 -0500

I always understood "didit didit" to mean a hypen or dash or in some cases
an exagerated space/blank.  Interesting thread.
73 and dahdadit  ditdahdidit (GL)
Tony, W4FOA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene A. Williamson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 9:37 AM
Subject: [CW] Morse for the @ sign


>      Years ago, I would listen to the 20m NCDXC Sunday evening DX
> bulletin, which spotted active DX stations. They would send Morse
> thus:
>
> N7YW/P5 didit didit 1400Z didit didit 14024
>
>      I wondered why the letter "i" sent twice between call, time, and
> frequency. Much later I saw somewhere (magazine? handbook?
> hallucination?) that "didit didit" was the @ sign.
>
> 73 Gene N7YW
> 99.44% CW since 1958 (ex-K7DBV)
>
>
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