[SOC] The use of BT

[Allan Glasdam]

I have learned that equals sign is ---...
It works in Europe
Allan, OZ8A


Den 29-11-2011 00:10, Jeff Kincaid skrev:
> 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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