[Elecraft] What does 72 mean

[Kevin Cozens]

At 09:43 AM 09/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a question. We all know what 88 means (Love and Kisses)
>and 73 (Best regards and goodbye) but I am hearing 72 both on
>the air and some of the letters on this reflector. Can someone
>define 72 so we can all know what it means.

I found the following quote:
         * "72" means "have fun with QRP!" in QRP parlance.
on the page at http://users.erols.com/tjmc/liqrp.htm

At 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/agriculture/agronomy/ham/QRP/20010627.qrp.v02_n233 
you can find the explanation:
         72 is the QRP version of 73. Except a QRP station doesn't have 
quite enough oomph to make it to 73.


The first explanation of 72 I remember seeing was in a QRP publication. I 
don't remember if it was in an ARRL QRP book or one of the magazines I 
received from a QRP club. The explanation had to do with the fact that QRP 
operators do more with less. Its the explanation I prefer. You are free to 
pick the explanation which you like best.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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