[CW] Re: Digital CW (was Numbers Stations)

[KA8VIT]

IMHO = In my humble opinion

YMMV = Your mileage may vary.

A bleed over from Internet usage...  and later...  texting...

73 - Bill KA8VIT

wealsowalk at aol.com wrote:
> I sort of agree with you Ken.  I do not know what those things mean 
> either (cf  IMHO, YMMV), however, keep in mind that it was CW ops that 
> sort of started all of that.  See for example YL, XYL, GG, GN, 73 etc 
> etc which are none found in your Q pro list.  Not only that but there 
> are among the real pros other Q signs that you won't find in your Q 
> sign list because they are not in theirs either.  They just used 
> them.  Generally they started as clowning around, but in the end they 
> stuck for a while.  You did not see them on the ham bands usually 
> though and you do not see them on the ship frequencies any more 
> either, do you.  The basic idea is to communicate effectively and 
> efficiently between two ops and that does not always mean they are 
> working some net traffic where official pro-signs are the rule.
> ..
> Bill
> AC6QV
>

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