[Elecraft] C W question/Cut numbers

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

My two cents worth, I remember the long dah =0, A=1 and N=9 being used on
the ham bands sometimes, way back in the middle ages (1940s). But not long
ago I upset a guy on 40m by giving him a RST report of  57A, (A= auroral
tone). He thought I meant that his "tone" was "sixty-cycle or less, very
rough and broad" (571). We made up.

73,   Geoff   GM4ESD

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Toepfer" <davetoepfer at yahoo.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] C W question/Cut numbers
>
> I agree completely.  Of course, a long dah is not necessary in these
> situations, since the lack of ambiguity allows us to just send T for 0, A
for
> 1, ..., and N for 9.
>
> But I guess that was the problem that the long dah was trying to conquer,
that
> is, to allow cut numbers in ambiguous situations.  And I'll bet it was the
> influence of Landline/American Morse proficiente who introduced that,
since the
> long dah was an actual element (eg. L and 0 (zero)).
>