What is HiHi? The Amateur Radio Minute

It’s okay if it’s on CW.

But the next person I hear using “hi-hi” on any of the voice modes, I swear I’m gonna get them registered as a sex offender!

I was told years ago that HI meant "humour intended". It irritates me when they say it on voice. Ivan VE7IVN

LOL

Outdated and seems rather immature in my opinion.

Hearing hihi on repeaters is irritating

I think is better to laugh than say hihi ...

Hi Hi

Hi Hi = LOL

They should use .-.. - - - .-.. now 😄

What about “fine business”? Is there “coarse business”?

Lo Lo

HiHi Puffy AmiYumi

In dutch it's just H.I.

At a recent meeting of my HAM club, another member read an article titled how not to be a bad operator, AKA a "LID." One of the questionable practices the author criticized was using HI HI on phones QSO's. The author seemed to also take exception to other common practices like routinely giving a call sign using phonetics while on a local repeater and other fine points of operating. DInformal dscussions after the meeting tended to agree that the author was a tad to tightly wound for their own good and should lighten up a touch. Additional research by another member of the club revealed the origin of the term LID. In the early days of the telegraph some operators would place the metal LID from a tobacco tin on top of the recieve repeater unit on their desk. This was done to help them better hear incoming signals. Those who used this method were considered poor operators and referred to as LID's as a kind of insult.

one minute??? more like 30 secs! fast guy!

Thanks. I have noticed in club emails and such and had no idea.

We have a ham on repeater here , and there is a guy that does that every day will laughing. Now I know what Hi Hi is now but now I know he is weird laughing and doing HI HI. Mind that what happens when you get old

CW equivalent of "LOL". It sounds ridiculous when people say it verbally, especially if they're non-CW people. Cheers! Chris - NI7I

« Hi hi » is the French interjection for giggling and laughing. Also « de » is the French word for "from".

What for me is a real mystery is not that a few french words were introduced in morse code but why so many Region 2 radio operators refuse to use the International Phonetic Alphabet? I keep hearing Sugar, Italy and other non standard words, instead of Sierra, India, etc.

LOL...hihi

I don't and never have used CW, but I can understand the use of "Hi Hi" on CW because there is no voice, but if they are on one of the many voice modes, to me it sounds rather dumb.

So OSCAR-1 was really laughing as it flew in circles around the globe and eventually burned up?

HiHi LOL Hihi byebye

di-di-di-dit di-dit di-di-di-dit di-dit = HIHI. Sounds more like laughter than di-di-di-dit di-dah di-di-di-dit di-dah = HAHA.

Hey Josh, have you noticed decent prop on 40m lately at all?

I've been getting a lot of signal from the eastern US and some places even in south america lately. Got a few from Cali too.