[CW] Fwd: [CQ-Contest] Iddy-umpty

[Danny Douglas]

Wasnt just the non-morse people,  WE called OURSELVES dittyboppers.  Been trying to think what the auto-translators across the hall were called, but was hardly ever over in their area.

N7DC at ARRL.NET
Ex WN5QMX,WA5UKR,ET2US,ET3USA,SV0WPP,VS6DD,N7DC/YV5/G5CTB
QSL Bureau, DIRECT, LOTW Preferred, eQSL used but upload at a courtesy only, as do not use the system for awards.

> On November 28, 2017 at 11:31 AM Joe K2UF <joe at k2uf.com> wrote:
> 
>     Back in the army in the early sixties the non morse folks called us 'ditty boppers'.
>      
>     Joe K2UF 
> 
> 
>     ---------------------------------------------
>     From: cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Radio K0HB
>     Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 10:37 AM
>     To: CW Reflector
>     Subject: [CW] Fwd: [CQ-Contest] Iddy-umpty
> 
>      
> 
>     ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>     From: David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com mailto:xdavid at cis-broadband.com >
>     Date: Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 08:12
>     Subject: [CQ-Contest] Iddy-umpty
>     To: <xdavid at cis-broadband.com mailto:xdavid at cis-broadband.com >
> 
> 
> 
>      From an article on BBC.com about words about to be lost:
> 
>     "Iddy-umpty"
> 
>     "An affectionate term for Morse code, used in the early 1900s. ‘Umpty’
>     had been in use since the mid 19th Century as a slang term for an
>     unspecified or seemingly impossibly large number (which eventually gave
>     us the word umpteen in the early 1900s). To that was attached the
>     apparently random prefix ‘iddy’ to form ‘iddy-umpty’, a word intended
>     perhaps to imitate the stuttering sound of a Morse code transmission,
>     and to allude to its seemingly countless stream of ‘dits’ and ‘dahs’."
> 
> 
>     I had never even heard that term before, and I've been licensed since 1967.
> 
>     73,
>     Dave, AB7E
> 
>     _______________________________________________
>     CQ-Contest mailing list
>     CQ-Contest at contesting.com mailto:CQ-Contest at contesting.com
>     http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
>     --
>     73, de Hans, K0HB
>     --
>     "Just a boy and his radio"™
> 
>      http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient
> 
>     Virus-free. www.avg.com http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient
> 


 

> ______________________________________________________________
>     CW mailing list
>     Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw
>     Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>     Post: mailto:CW at mailman.qth.net
>     CW List ARCHIVES: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/cw/
>     Unsubcribe send email to
>     cw-unsubscribe at mailman.qth.net
>     Subscribe send email to cw-subscribe at mailman.qth.net
>     Support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> 
>     =30=
> 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/cw/attachments/20171128/760aa782/attachment.html>