[Elecraft] What does 72 mean

Mon Sep 16 23:21:01 2002

This email got me thinking so I looked up '92 code' and found this site:

http://members.tripod.com/morse_telegraph_club/informat.htm

Best regards,  (I think this is the current meaning for 73 but I may be wrong :) 
    Kevin.   KD5ONS

9/16/2002 6:18:29 PM, Helmut Usbeck <[email protected]> wrote:

>72 in the radiogram code, which was bases on the land telegraph code
>means "wishing you and yours the best this holiday season"
>
>--Helm.  WB2ADT
>
>Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>> 
>> > ...guess I'm just a traditionalist.
>> 
>>    then maybe 73/2 would appeal more to you?
>> 
>>    73(/2), Eddi ._._.
>> 
>> I don't have any quarrel with anyone who says "72". I take it as a QRP
>> equivalent of 73. I'm not criticizing that choice at all. I only said
>> that I don't use it because I enjoy the authentic connection to our
>> roots. These numbers come from the standards set up for handling
>> messages back in the railroad telegraph and Western Union days. I
>> believe it was known as the '92 code' and assigned meanings to the
>> numbers from 1 to 92, much like the "Q" codes we use today.
>> 
>> As for doing something different now, I can't recall a QRP QSO in which
>> our rigs and power levels weren't discussed, so what's the point?
>> 
>> If that should happen, it was because there was something more important
>> to discuss was at hand. So why the distraction?
>> 
>> I do sign /QRP when calling running 5 watts or less. That's to alert
>> other stations who may be looking for QRP contacts. And that's in
>> accordance with very long-standing practice started by the FCC decades
>> ago and something the FCC currently recommends American hams use as
>> needed to designate any unusual status of the station.
>> 
>> If enough operators use "72" long enough, it will eventually become
>> incorporated into usage no doubt. Like another of the old number codes,
>> "30" that means "End of Message" . 30 in landline Morse was sent as
>> di-di-di-dah-dit, daaaaah. (The long dash was a zero as those of us who
>> use manual keys are still apt to send it). Over time it started being
>> sent as di-di-di-dah-di-dah which is usually written as the prosign SK
>> today and used by Hams world wide to signify "End of Message".
>> 
>> Something similar may happen to 73 due to the use of 72 nowadays. I'll
>> leave that for future generations to sort out.
>> 
>> With that I'll go "21" (stop and eat) for now. It's lunch time.
>> 
>> Ron AC7AC
>> K2 # 1289
>> 
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