[Milsurplus] CW "de" ?

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 4 Jun 2016 at 14:29, Hubert Miller wrote:

>     Why did ham radio adopt the C.W. signal  "de" instead of the "v" used by the commercial services 
>     and the military?
>     -Hue Miller

For one thing, because many of the early radio experimenters were French. There was 
some sort of international radio get-together in the early years which was held in France, 
and common interoperating signals were agreed upon there, AND previous to that time, 
French was an "international" language, since superseded by American English.

It is historically based.

Ken