Introduction to Ham Radio: Common Abbreviations (

[@chrisk0blu594]

Great video! Could you give a link to the list of short codes, please?

[@chuckrann6282]

Getting back into CW. Thanks.

[@vladtepes481]

Hitler's birthday is April 20. 88 comes from Heil Hitler. H is the eighth letter of Alphabet. I frequently receive 88 from YL CW/RTTY operators particularly during contests. HNY is often included in a confirmation during the RTTY Roundup. This test is early in the New Year.

[@reiddixon9708]

You are terrific! That means good

[@indrajitR]

wow. nice to see you.

[@lyfandeth]

I keep confusing UTC and Zulu but as I recall, Zulu time HAS NO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. So it doesn't need to be screwed with twice a year. Or did I get those reversed againt?

[@lyfandeth]

Know that if you are doing emergency communications, such as FEMA/ICS under the national standard, JARGON is totally prohibited. The purpose of jargon is to exclude strangers, while the purpose of ICS is to ensure everyone from every service can understand plain English. Have you ever heard a fire radio call for a "par"? It has nothing to do with golf, and mutual aid will be unable to respond.

[@sethirwin1610]

Zulu and UTC are interchangeable. Zulu comes from the US military, which assigns global time zones with letter codes. The UTC time zone carries the letter Z, which in the phonetic alphabet is expressed as “Zulu.”

[@R50_J0]

Haircut.

[@charlietudor9838]

Hilter’s birthday is April 20th

[@lyfandeth]

Shutting down station: Probably tornado or lightning and you are bunkering in ASAP. The days, could also mean air raid warnings. (Sigh)

[@gmb9319]

88 is not Adolf Hitler's Birthday but refers to "Heil Hitler" the Nazi salute with H being the 8th letter of the alphabet

[@N2YTA]

Also, I wouldn’t consider Hitler being “far right”, he wasn’t for lower taxes, and I doubt that he believed that less government is better government.

[@daniell8387]

@@N2YTA No but the ones that seem to idolize him nowadays tend to be part of the far/alt right crowd. Like the guys holding tiki torches and screaming about Jewish people at the Charlottesville rallies. I remember somewhere someone visualizing the political spectrum as two dimensions as opposed to the flawed left/right one dimension everyone obsesses over nowadays. There was left vs right, liberal vs conservative, but the line in the middle between them represented moderate politics, people who were live and let live. Think the Biden and Trump voters that joke at each other at work then meet to bowl every weekend and eat dinner at each other's houses all the time. Those people are in the middle, then extremism reaches up and down on both sides, one towards an individual (Fascist dictators like Hitler, Mussolini, Franco etc) and the other emphasizes party more (Communism under Mao, Stalin, etc) The funny thing is, right or left, totalitarianism is all the same, except one tends towards a cult of personality, and the other pretends to seek the good of the people. At the end of the day, we are ruled by incompetent power hungry idiots who start their career with a price tag on their heads that corporate interests are only too glad to pay.

[@evanjones2539]

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[@timbacchus]

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[@JohnSmith-qc4ye]

That ---.. ---.. thing comes from the eighth letter in the alphabet not a birthday. That's why in DL you can't get any car license plate with an ---.. ---.. in any combination in it, anymore; a decade ago no problem. I'm puzzled somehow. Instead to give away good meaning words to the bad guys, and changing things to the bad side, maybe we should use positive words more "aggressivly" in a positive way. Example? The word "g@y" changed from an insult to a usable term after people proudly used it. There is a german word for "people thinking outside the box", it's "querdenker". That word turned into a negative meaning to label people as bad during the time 2020 to 2023. I was for decades in the workplace always pround to be a person thinking outside the box, and refuse to surrender to the "word changers". Am I right, don't know. Is it worth some trouble, don't know either. Well, just my two cents. (apologize for my non native speaker English)

[@KF0NNQ]

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