[Icom] Apostrophe abuse...

Sun, 25 May 2003 14:48:30 -0400

No, 73 was sent as one group - other "surviving" number groups are:

88 - love and kisses
99 - keep out

33 - was made up by hams - so it doesn't trace its origins to commercial use
as the others do.  It was noticed that 88 by woman to woman felt too strong
and mushy, so the 88 was reduced by cutting it in half, vertically!  So 33
resulted.

73

David Ring
N1EA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck R Olive" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Icom] Apostrophe abuse...

> 7 3... (seven three) not 73 (seventy three).
>
> 7 3 de n6eq
> On Sun, 25 May 2003 10:08:13 -0400 "radiodaz" <[email protected]>
> writes:
> > 73 or 73's
> > While it does not require a apostrohe it is used both ways by hams
> > in qso's.
> > It means best wishes not best wishes's
> > tim
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mel" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 7:28 AM
> > Subject: [Icom] Apostrophe abuse...
> >
> >
> > > Only if a non-ham said something like... "He always follows his
> > > correspondence with 73's"... A CB'er would have to write "He
> > always
> > > follows his correspondence with 73s". A Ham would know better and
> > use it
> > > properly... "He always follows his correspondence with 73"...
> > >
> > > The difference is in the first case, the non-ham has no idea of
> > the
> > > significance of the 73, therefore it's just a number, which
> > requires an
> > > apostrophe... In the second case, it is not merely a number, so
> > it
> > > doesn't require an apostrophe, in the third case, the Ham knows
> > that you
> > > never pluralize 73...
> > >
> > > Back to Icom?
> > >
> > > >73's???
> > > >Jack, K6IFF
> > >
> > > Mel...
> > > VE2DC
> > >
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