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

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:26:54 -0500

And let's not forget "shave and a haircut - two bits"  (dit .. dit dit ...
dit.. dit.. , dit dit)

The originating operator would start it, and the receiving op would add the
"two bits" ... and when standing watch at 3 or 4am, there would be the
occasional "dit" war... ;o)

--Tom
K1VG
(Previously NMF, NMAG, WN2WTQ, KB1CGA)

p.s. How may ex-military radiomen do we have out there?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Norm Gertz" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Qcwa] Re: Whatever happened to "da da di di da da"??

> 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" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> 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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