[SOC] The use of BT

[Jeff Kincaid]

I too learned it as the double dash, but nobody taught me how to write it.  I just used a single dash, until years later when I read an old telegraphers' manual and learned that a double dash looks just like an equals sign: =.  Whod'a thunk it?

Jeff W6JK

--- On Mon, 11/28/11, Charles Harpole <k4vud at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Charles Harpole <k4vud at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [SOC] The use of BT
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Monday, November 28, 2011, 11:01 PM
> 
> I was taught it is a double dash  - -  and that
> it is a "place holder" like RTTY diddle while the CW guy
> thinks of something else to say.  73,
> 
> Charles Harpole
> k4vud at hotmail.com   
>  > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:20:59 +0100
> > From: f5vhc at free.fr
> > To: wire2k at prodigy.net;
> soc at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [SOC] The use of BT
> > 
> > I think somebody shot you a line
> > nnn
> > 
> > On 28/11/2011 18:01, Neal Enault wrote:
> > > We all know, and use, the prosign "BT", but do we
> really understand its significance?  i just learned
> that it is short for "Broken Track", as in "The track is
> broken, and my train of thought derailed."
> > >
> > > 7n, Neal WA6OCP
> > > #000625
> > >
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