"Caveat Lector" wrote in message
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Heard this on the Ham Bands
I know what 73 means (Best Regards)
But what's with 99 ??
I was intrigued by your question - Googling finds an article "TELEGRAPHIC
CODES OF MORSE AND MEN by Kenneth Brown G0PSW" in which he says "The U.S.
1908 Dodge's Manual gives today's definition of 73 as "best regards". Other
Dodge numbers were 88 (love and kisses), 55 (lots of success), and 99 (get
lost, which was probably unofficial)."

http://www.qsl.net/w5www/73.html#73
http://www.ac6v.com/73.htm

The use of 73 and 99 together seems rather ambivalent!

Tom