As PSK31 and other digital modes evolve in Amateur Radio, any guess as to how
long it will take for the FCC to put this into the exam pool? And you thought
morse code was tough- at least that was only 26 characters + numbers and some
punctuation!
And then in 50 years a bunch of older hams will be upset when the FCC
eliminates the IMing requirement and thus ruining the hobby. ;) (The latest
Icom BW-1000 All-Band fully digital synthesized thought implant chip will be
all the rage, except for the guys on the repeater builder site who still stand
by the GE and Motorola "Reed" Brain chips that oscillate mechanically with your
brain waves, because they are more stable and bulletproof, no matter how big an
idiot you are! ;) )
Going back to listening to mp3's on my wire recorder- Have a great Weekend!
Tom
W9SRV <-----(That's my call sign, not an IM abbreviation)
At 06:54 AM 07/07/07, you wrote:
>In the eight to nine years I've been involved with computers and
>electronic mail and having been licensed since 1959, I have read [and
>still read everyday] many a article generated here on the largest
>Amateur Radio related Yahoo list, Repeater-Builder and other technical
>resources. I even contributed the original Repeater Builders Check List
>a couple of years ago to the RBTIP
>http://www.repeater-builder.com/rbtip/ , and surprised I didn't use any
>of the well known acronyms used today.
>
>With over 3600 members on the Repeater-Builder list, its interesting to
>see some of the acronyms used in the exchange of the many emails that
>are related to the technical side of our great hobby. There is one
>acronym that for the life of me, I just cannot figure out what it
>means: AFAIK. I recently figured out the often used acronym, PITA,
>"pain in the ass", which has been thrown upon many a Ham Radio operator,
>myself included.
>
>No, I am not yet retired and do not have lots of free time on my hands
>and, I even have an ongoing repeater related project [remote control of
>a HF and repeater station via the Internet] to keep me out of trouble.
>So here's the challenge. Do you know the meaning of the following
>acronyms: FWIW, IMHO, BTW, FYI,YMMV, LOL.....I am not going to touch the
>"Q" codes!! Some answers can be found doing a Google search or hook onto
>the Wikipedia library and see what happens. Good Luck and if there are
>any others I may have missed, please forward so we all can be
>enlightened.......73!, my favorite acronym!!
>
>Doug Fitts W7FDF
>Vail, Arizona U.S.A.
>927.850/R PL 114.8 hz
>IRLP node 3850.....since 2001
A very complete list of email, cellphone texting and IMing abbreviations
is at
One that is like is CRTLA
I found out about that from another speaker at a local meeting
location... I was there to teach a tech session and got there
early, and killed the time until my time slot opened up by standing
in the corridor listening to the gentleman in an adjacent meeting
room... he was doing an overview of the internet for parents and
mentioned IMing and cellphone texting, and posted that web site
on the projector attached to his laptop as a resource for translation
of the chat logs...
Mike WA6ILQ
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