Dubya 5 DDL repeaters

[Tim-B]

I noticed that when both the 2 meter and 70 cm W5DDL repeaters in Lafayette give their morse ID it is followed by 6R in morse code. Does anyone know that the 6R means?

 

[nd5y]

Are you sure you are not confusing 6 -.... with / -..-. ?
Many repeaters ID with /R after the callsign to indicate that it is a repeater. I think that may have even been required at one time.

 

[Tim-B]

It could be. What is that character? I don't see -..-. on my morse code cheat sheet.

 

[nd5y]

-..-. is the slash or fraction bar character /

 

[Tim-B]

Aha. Ok. I thought that I was hearing -..-. but Iooked at my cheat sheet and all the characters with five dots or dashes were numbers and it didn't fit any of them so I thought it was a 6. Well, that's my new thing to learn today. I need a new cheat sheet with punctuation.

 

[cmdrwill]

AKA "slant r". Was used many years ago to identify the station as a repeater. Some repeaters still use that added "slant R'' but is not required any more.