[CW] Morse for the @ sign

Sat, 06 Sep 2003 18:54:29 +0200

The normal use here for "didit didit"woud be "I repeat" though i dont 
hear it often.

Jan

Gene A. Williamson wrote:

>     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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