Comment on How ham radio endures - and remains a disaster lifeline - in the iPhone era
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Um, hold up for a second. Did the author seriously at the very end of the article say 73 SK? I’m sorry, but those two things do not go well together.
ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Doesn’t 73 mean “best regards” and SK just mean “end of contact”? I see that SK can also colloquially mean that an operator is deceased, though. Genuinely curious, not familiar with the hobby.
BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 2 months ago
It’s both. SK, Stop Keying, is used in CW (morse) whenever a station is done transmitting. SK is also Silent Key, but you’ll rarely hear the abbreviation over voice or CW.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I don’t know anybody who uses SK as end of contact. I’ve always heard it referred to as the operator being deceased.