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by masukomi 1342 days ago
do you realistically see yourself, or anyone else keying in those ?

Using morse is all about efficient transmission in high noise environments.

Personally, I think I'd be annoyed if i had to decode that whilst sitting on a mountain top, or wherever (not being hyperbolic SOTA[1] and POTA[2] are real things folks participate in).

[1]: Summits On The Air https://www.sota.org.uk/ [2]: Parks on the Air https://parksontheair.com/
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Twisol 1342 days ago
I'm not a Morse operator, so I wouldn't know. That's why I said the function of these words may simply not be needed.

The poster earlier claimed that no English word contains the digraph "hh", however, which is simply untrue. It's quite uncommon, and I'm sure the prosign use of HH is grammatically unambiguous in general, but it being invalid otherwise is not a well-founded reason.

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srvmshr 1342 days ago
> The poster earlier claimed that no English word contains the digraph "hh"

Context, my friend.

If you pick up regular non-colloquial words & unconjugated words, there actually is no word with a double H. I read this trivia in the ARRL handbook. Extremely well written covering everything HAM.

But like others are posting to prove a point in contrary, fishhook beachhead exist - but are either conjugated or colloquial. By that reasoning, every second word in Asian languages such as Vietnamese/Laotian has double H when scripted - but is it to be considered a standard mode of unambiguous communication over international frequency spectrums?

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Twisol 1342 days ago
> I read this trivia in the ARRL handbook. Extremely well written covering everything HAM.

> [...] a standard mode of unambiguous communication over international frequency spectrums

That's exactly the context that's missing for most participants in this thread :) Thanks for making it explicit for us! When you lead with "There is no word in English dictionary with HH", it sounds like the context is literally the English dictionary. What you're actually judging against is the practical lexicon of radio operators, which is very different and worthy of investigation independent of the lexicon the rest of us plebians use ;)

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