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> 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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