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[Dean Jeutter]

TV radio jargon also has it as "six two and even, over and out" (Dick 
Tracy maybe?)

K3GGN
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On 4/30/2014 12:10 PM, Kevin wrote:
> 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
>
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