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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:13:15 GMT, "Marty B."
wrote: Well to me 73`sss and "HANDLE" reminds me of CB`ers, on the ham bands and I hate hearing it. Wrong again. Hams have always said 73s. I have been hearing it on the ham bands myself since 1963 when I started as an SWL, and you can read it in the CQ and QST magazines from the 1940s and 50s so I don't know when you strange campaigners got into this absurd obsession but you are sadly mistaken. The CBers say "Seventy-thirds" which is REALLY stupid. They also say "personal" and some otjher idiotic things, but hey, why let it ruin your day? If they sound stupid to you, fine. I often say 73s deliberately just to irk some of you pedantic Johnny-come-latelys (grin!) |
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:44:32 GMT, "Dick, AA5VU"
wrote: It's just 73 and on CW is is Is is? Is that like 73s ? LOL! As Bill Clinton said. The meaning of the word "IS" is debatable! LOL! |
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:14:26 -0800, "Keyboard In The Wilderness"
wrote: It then becomes apparent that it is 73 NOT 73's, but many say 73's and everyone knows what is meant. No apostrophe in 73s, guy! THat would be possessive. "The property of the 73" just makes, no sense. Please use 73s NOT 73's - it annoys me when people use an un-necessary apostrophe! How is THAT for pedantry, guys? |
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:31:24 GMT,
(K5DH) wrote: The correct term is "73", from ARRL numbered radiogram "Seventy-Three", which means "Best Regards." Saying 73s would be like saying "Best Regardses." Again this old saw has already been sawn about 50 times in this thread so you are not bringing and new idea! |
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:59:38 -0700, Dave Hollander
wrote: My name is Dave and my handle is aluminum or "aluminium" for the VE's and G stations Dave - I use dto work a station up in Chattanooga on 40m AM back around 1967 or so, and he had an old K4XXX call BEFORE they had vanity calls to fake others off that you are an O.T. His handle was "Catfish" and he was a great guy. I never found out what his real name was, but he was just a great old-time AM op from way back. None of us had come from the CB ranks back then. We didn't try to recruit CBers until the ham manufacturers thought they should persuade ARRL to pursue it so they could sell more radios. That's when the contentiousness increased I think! YMMV |
wot massage??
wot thread? wot iz amarture radio about? ;) "AF Four Kilo" wrote in message ... On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:33:33 GMT, "ergo" wrote: It is seventy-thirds 70/3 Because 23.333333333333333333333333 is the value of pi times the square root of the ohms plus the amps. my handle is my wifes business not yours Ha ha ha ha! GREAT response, and makes as much sense as the message that STARTED this thread! LOL! |
Bry
Chill Cheers "AF Four Kilo" wrote in message ... blah blah |
It's all pretty simple when you look at the words. 73 is a CW
abbreviation for Best Regards. As no doubt hundreds before me have pointed out, there is already an "s" at the end of regard. If you write out 73's, it becomes Best Regards's. If you write that for a while, instead of 73's, you will come to see how much it butchers the English language. Regards is already a plural word. To add ('s) to the end of regards is to pluralize a plural. My high school English teacher would have a heart attack. I don't know where this all started. If I look at my QSL cards from the 50's I don't see anyone using 73's. I suspect it was born from the "10-4 Good Buddy" crowd. It is a hopeless argument anyway, as a good percentage of today's high school graduates can't read or write properly. The rest of us just have to roll our eyes and accept the inevitable. 73, Dick - W6CCD On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:04:30 -0800, Bill Turner wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 01:02:27 GMT, AF Four Kilo wrote: No apostrophe in 73s, guy! ____________________ Huh-uh! Apostrophes are allowed to pluralize non-standard words, including acronyms. Thus QSL's is ok as a plural and so is 73's. |
Actually Dick, I saw in one of the latest QST magazines a letter from
someone involved in the ARRL back in 1918 or so, having written "73s", plus reading old CQ magazines from 1950, I have seen the use of "handle". Not to say I like it or use these that way. Chuck WG2A "Dick" wrote in message ... It's all pretty simple when you look at the words. 73 is a CW abbreviation for Best Regards. As no doubt hundreds before me have pointed out, there is already an "s" at the end of regard. If you write out 73's, it becomes Best Regards's. If you write that for a while, instead of 73's, you will come to see how much it butchers the English language. Regards is already a plural word. To add ('s) to the end of regards is to pluralize a plural. My high school English teacher would have a heart attack. I don't know where this all started. If I look at my QSL cards from the 50's I don't see anyone using 73's. I suspect it was born from the "10-4 Good Buddy" crowd. It is a hopeless argument anyway, as a good percentage of today's high school graduates can't read or write properly. The rest of us just have to roll our eyes and accept the inevitable. 73, Dick - W6CCD On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:04:30 -0800, Bill Turner wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 01:02:27 GMT, AF Four Kilo wrote: No apostrophe in 73s, guy! ____________________ Huh-uh! Apostrophes are allowed to pluralize non-standard words, including acronyms. Thus QSL's is ok as a plural and so is 73's. |
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