You know Dean, the more I think about it, the more I think that is the
root of the disagreement. For those of us brought up on CW before we
could ever operate on phone, we would never, ever use 73s on CW. When
we graduated to phone, it was natural to continue the original meaning
of the abbreviation. Those who never used CW, or only had a casual
acquaintance with it, started *******izing the term by adding an S to
the end where it was never intended.

Dick - W6CCD

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:31:24 GMT,
(K5DH) wrote:

Funny how this is only a debate for 'phone ops. CW ops
just send "73", never "73s".


73,
Dean K5DH