Subj : Re: Locator maps
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Tue Oct 25 2016 09:46:00

In a message on Tuesday 10-23-16 mark lewis said to Ed Vance:

Good morning Mark,

 EV> I will have to look the next time I visit qrz.com to see what the
 EV> Number Zero looks like, iirc it is a plain old Zero, not dot nor
 EV> slash.

ml> ok... just note that the ones i linked above are not dotted or
ml> slashed zeros... they are a completely different letter of that
ml> alphabet... one that does not exist in english...

Not in any other language I know, except in danish. In danish it
replaces the letter 'O' (oh) with two dots above. The 'O' with two dots
is used in other scandinavian languages, and in german.

AFAIK, the slashed O is available in cp850, but I don't use that.

ml> when i looked for just a plain O (oh), their site worked but found
ml> nothing... then it wouldn't let me search for holger's name unless i
ml> was logged in... oh well, there's other sites available ;)

To see what info QRZ displayed about my call sign, I too had to login.
That was the same as registering, so I received a password by e-mail.

Maybe there is no info to my call, in that case I'll have to update it,
or correct the info if it's wrong.

ml> that callsign at all... then i went by the HAMCall World-Wide site
ml> and they had no trouble finding it at all...

ml> http://hamcall.net/call?callsign=OH%D8NC

ml> it is the O (oh) with a slash through it but the sad/wrong part is
ml> that when they display it beside holger's name, they use a zero
ml> instead of what it actually is... yeah, i zoomed in on it to see
ml> specifically what they are using...

That's also what I have programmed into my editors Latin-1 to PC8
conversion table. Among others, the swedes do use the slashed O for zero
in their bulletins, and I'm myself am a culprit of doing the same.

Actually, most hams use it to discern zero from the letter O.

While doing my military duty in the signal corps, we were told to
underscore the O, to identify it as a zero. Much better in my mind.


Have a nice day,

Holger

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