[Qcwa] Memory Lane !!

[Norm Gertz]

Joe Fenn wrote:
" As commercial opr in the airlines we
continued using that as it was in old morse   di dah dah   dit    dit
Meaning we were asking for the oprs personal sine at the other
end before passing traffice to him"

In my memory this was a very common configuration and I always assumed it
was an abbreviation for "Who" with a mixture of codes.

" Another carryover was
di dah dit     di dah dah dah
which signified to opr on other end   "Sby am changing operators
here".

At WAR all operators logged out with " RJ" to whatever operator sine was
relieving him.  I never knew the significance of it just some old tradition.

We also had some abbreviations for service messages which escape me at the
moment.

I sure do remember the N for nine and long dash for zero on the manual
circuits...

You are sure testing this old memory Joe...

73    Norm   K1AA