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  1. 11-10-2010, 09:37 AM #1
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    What's with all the stroking going on on the bands?

    When and why did hams start saying "stroke", as in "portable" or "mobile?" I operated a special op station last year when it became 100 years old and the ID was [station call] "stroke" 100. And a couple of weeks ago in the mobile someone called W1GUH stroke mobile. Felt like telling him to keep his strokes to himself.

    WTF? How come all the stroking? If I want a "stroke", I will definately NOT be on the radio!!!! Maybe the internet, but then, the internet uses the proper term, "slash", forward or backward.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W1GUH View Post
    When and why did hams start saying "stroke", as in "portable" or "mobile?" I operated a special op station last year when it became 100 years old and the ID was [station call] "stroke" 100. And a couple of weeks ago in the mobile someone called W1GUH stroke mobile. Felt like telling him to keep his strokes to himself.

    WTF? How come all the stroking? If I want a "stroke", I will definately NOT be on the radio!!!! Maybe the internet, but then, the internet uses the proper term, "slash", forward or backward.
    Dunno. If you use the one that slants the other way , is that a "backstroke" ?
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    It's an old military designator. ie pistol stoke 45 stoke semiautomatic Dunno why they never used slash, other than that was something else.
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  4. 11-10-2010, 09:50 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7SGJ View Post
    It's an old military designator. ie pistol stoke 45 stoke semiautomatic
    Even older...

    <drum>STROKE<drum>STROKE<drum>STROKE
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  5. 11-10-2010, 09:54 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by w3bny View Post
    Even older...

    <drum>STROKE<drum>STROKE<drum>STROKE
    No comments from the galley.

    :-P
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  6. 11-10-2010, 10:13 AM #6
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    Hams have a long history of coming up with terms and euphemisms that sound really retarded to the rest of the population.
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    Quote Originally Posted by w3bny View Post
    Even older...

    <drum>STROKE<drum>STROKE<drum>STROKE
    ...it's a conscious failure, just doin' da stroke...
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    It iis a fetish that originated in Brit-envy. Much as it has become fashionable to use "zed" in lieu of "zulu," the proper phonetic for a US ham. "Stroke" is bullshit for "slash," which probably sounds far too US pedestrian for social-climbers seeking to sound urbane and sophisticated. In the US military parlance, it became fashionable to use "carry on" (Brit-speak) instead of "as you were" (US standard) after an officer entered a venue and sought to return the room or group to duty.

    In other words, it is mere bullshit and so should be avoided.
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    I wonder if people would appreciate my IT lingo of "whack" the designate "/"...
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  10. 11-10-2010, 10:52 AM #10
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    It might get ya banned on some boards....
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