Wayne,

I'll be happy to provide you with a magic decoder ring for a small 
donation   to the KW3A equipment fund.

Just kidding of course.    These symbols have no meaning.  They are just 
extraneous junk that gets inserted into some e-mails for whatever 
reason.  It has been a fact of life on this list forever, and short of 
unsubscribing, the only options are to live with it, or delete any 
message as soon as you see an odd character.

73, Steve KW3A

On 1/4/2016 10:31 PM, Wayne Genz wrote:
> Hello Tom, can you explain all of them to me? I hate being in the dark when
> there is something being said and I have to assume a meaning. There is that
> word again, I don't like being the first part of that word at all. I don't
> want to make anyone else feel that they are either. If you can and are
> willing can you help me. Wayne wa2usm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Tom Fowle
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 10:03 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: changed subject: email "codes"
>
> I have seen these codes substituted for normal ascii characters as long as
> I've been using email. It appears almost random and apparrently has to do
> with differing standards in how character sets are translated and packed for
> transmission. My experience so far on this list is that it's not much worse
> than many others I'm on.
>
> Yes, it's a conspiracy, the universe most certainly does "play dice!"
>
> The only good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose
> from.!
> Tom Fowle WA6IVG
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 05:29:52PM -0500, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> Hey Wayne, If I knew how to turn off the symbols, I would have taken
>> care of it!  It has been a discussion on whether the List is doing
>> this or up to each indedividual.  You make it sound like that I added the
> simbols on
>> perpous, sure fooled you.    KB2YAA
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wayne Genz
>> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 4:00 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: possible news article
>>
>> Hello, can everyone please stop using special characters when typing
>> an Email. I find it very rude and unacceptable. If you have something
>> to say that you don't want everyone to know, then phone the people you
>> want to talk to. Thank you, Wayne wa2usm
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2016 3:11 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: possible news article
>>
>> Hi all,
>> A friend wishes to write an article about ham radio and was addressing
>> = this to the general public.  He was wondering if there might be a
>> source = available to the general public on how one can find if there
>> any ham = radio operators in their area.  This would be for a person
>> who is = preparing an emergency kit and wanted to know if there is any
>> hams in = his area in case he has to notify family that he is OK.  I
>> thought the = ARRL would be a source, but there isn=E2=80=99t a search
>> by zip codes.  = I know that there is a zip code search under the
>> advance search page on = any of the callsign data bases.  Gary KB2YAA
>