[Qcwa] Re: Whatever happened to "da da di di da da"??

[Norm Gertz]

Harvey.....we are faced with the conflict between man and machine....the
code readers are not as flexible as the human radio operators.....sorry to
say.

73    Norm    K1AA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey&Bessie" <w4tg@bellsouth.net>
To: <qcwa@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Qcwa] Re: Whatever happened to "da da di di da da"??


> Naw! --..-- was the exclamation point, which was changed to the comma at
the same time the
> previous comma, .-.-.- was changed to the period, leaving us without an
exclamation point.
> Now most cw ops just send "WOW" where they formerly sent !. The former
period .. .. ..
> would be copied as iii on code readers and automatic electronic copying
machines
> (forerunners of the modern computer). They also changed the "close
parenthesis" character
> to accommodate copying machines: we formerly used -.--.- for both "open
parenthesis" and
> "close parenthesis," now ( is -.--.- and ) is -.--. This change seems to
have escaped
> attention of most hams. Personally, I can't see the need for the @ as a cw
character, I
> have been sending it as "at" and everybody seems to know what I mean. But,
of course,
> code-reading computers would just write the word "at."
> 73,
> Harvey/W4TG
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