Origin of 73

[ed sharpe]

the first line in the email message that the fellow sent has a short bio on
the phillips, yea he was around a bit  before wireless! I should have read
all before asking!
ed!
----- Original Message -----
From: Glen E. Zook <gzook at home.com>
To: ed sharpe <esharpe at uswest.net>
Cc: <BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: Origin of 73


> The Phillips Code predates wireless by quite a number of years.  I
understood
> it to be a series of numbered messages, but, I have also been told that it
was
> a system that omitted vowels, etc., in the message.  I have no idea as to
just
> who Phillips was.
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
> ed sharpe wrote:
>
> > Phillips who?
> > there was a famous radio operator by that name.....
>
>

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