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[Kevin]

The made up "radio jargon" which bothers me the most is "over and out".  
Which do you mean: over or out?  They mean very different things and 
CANNOT be used simultaneously.  However, few TV writers have any 
experience at comms.
     73,
          Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 4/30/2014 9:58 AM, WILLIS COOKE via Elecraft wrote:
> I eight years as a flier in the Air Force during the Vietnam era and 15 years as  private, instrument rated pilot I do not recall ever hearing Copy That on the radio.  We were trained to use Niner for Nine because it was easier to be sure what you heard in a series of numbers.  It is really important whether you meant Niner thousand or Five thousand feet.  The only time I recall hearing Copy That was in the inane commercial where two actors were conversing with a series of Copy Thats.  I have heard things like Copy Niner Thousand.  To repeat a controllers instruction when it is very important to get it correctly.
>   
> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman
> K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart