[PPRAANet] Morse code question

Jim Madsen je_madsen at comcast.net
Tue Aug 24 09:58:25 EDT 2021


Good morning Doug --

How about if you just send your grid square, DM78?  Most people know 
what that is.

Jim K3ILC

Douglas Hagerman via PPRAANet wrote:
> How do you deal with the length of the words “Colorado Springs”? Sending it three or four times when you are working sombody who is hearing you with a 439 report is painful!
>
> The instruction books say that you should send something like “QTH is Colorado Springs CO” but that is irritatingly long. For one thing, there is only one Colorado Springs, so I should not have to include the CO part, anybody can figure out that Colorado Springs is in Colorado. Also, for most purposes it is only the state that really matters anyway, so I could just say “QTH is Colorado” and that would usually be enough.
>
> (Also I just noticed that “CO” is the longest state abbreviation of the 50, when when adding up dots and dashes.)
>
> Can I get away with “Colo Springs” or “Co Springs” or “Co Spngs”?
>
> Maybe I should just move up to Erie, CO!   :-)
>
> Thanks for suggestions.
>
> Doug, W0UHU.
>
>
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