[Elecraft] OT - Type font question

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

As a high speed radio CW operator in the Army I was trained to slash a
circle. No one said it was a slashed zero or a slashed letter 'O'.  The
shape was not important as long as the slash was there.  We also slashed the
letter 'Z' to distinguish it from the number '2', but as I have seen many
times, we did not slash the number '7'.

Tom, N5GE - SWOT 3537 - Grid EM12jq

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Of course that practice was very important in the day of CW (and telegraph)
hand-copied with pencil and paper. Block printing by hand at 20 WPM or so
was just about my top speed and sometimes the shapes weren't quite so good
as I'd have liked. I learned and used the slashed zero and "Z" to avoid
ambiguity in all of my FCC exams. A few years later that practice came in
handy in the Army for me too ;-)

Ron AC7AC