[SOC] The use of BT

[Jeff Kincaid]

Oh!  Like the number 8 in SOC-speak.

'JK

--- On Tue, 11/29/11, Allan Glasdam <glasdam at fejoe.dk> wrote:

> From: Allan Glasdam <glasdam at fejoe.dk>
> Subject: Re: [SOC] The use of BT
> To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 7:00 AM
> 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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