[SOC] The use of BT

[john bell]

BT barred is a "break sign"  - written as = and used in maritime 
telegrams as a seperator between parts of a message, like between the 
text of the message and the signature.

= John F5VHC

On 29/11/2011 08:00, Allan Glasdam wrote:
> 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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