Subj : Re: Locator maps
To   : Holger Granholm
From : Ed Vance
Date : Fri Oct 28 2016 22:17:00

10-25-16 09:46 Holger Granholm wrote to Mark Lewis about Re: Locator maps
Howdy! Holger,

 HG> @MSGID: <5811D984.14967.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>
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 HG> To see what info QRZ displayed about my call sign, I too had to login.
 HG> That was the same as registering, so I received a password by e-mail.

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

Makes me glad I didn't attempt to enter Information for Your Call Sign
in qrz.com when it asked me if I wanted to do so.

You'll do it right!

 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...

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

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

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

I either read about putting a slash in the number zero when I was a Novice
or someone told me about doing that when I heard it sent in CW.
I hadn't heard of underscoring the number 0 , but that works too!

When I hear the number One I make a small horizontal line under the Vertical
line to distinguish it from the letter I .

I got my Novice license a year before I enlisted in the Navy.

Aboard Ship the Radiomen used a Typewriter instead of copying CW by hand.

73 de Ed W9ODR     . .


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