[Elecraft] Not moving your wrist sending CW ?

[Steve Witt]

On 03/29, Andy Durbin wrote:
> "the prosign for "Please repeat,"or "I will repeat."
> 
> I was taught over 55 years ago that "repeat" was an artillery fire
> control instruction that had no place in any communication except
> for artillery fire control.  Surprising to me that IMI would be
> defined that way.
> 
> In UK Signals, the phone phrases were "say again", "I say again",
> and "say again words twice".

Also true in U.S. Army radiotelephone procedure, at least how we
operated in the Signal Corps in the '70s and '80s when I was in. Never
heard or was taught 'words twice'. One would realize (with experience)
when key parts of the transmission should be said twice due to noise
or other difficulty with the channel, usually because of being asked
to 'say again' a few times. 

Asking for a retransmission:
  'say again your last transmission'   
  'say again all after'
  'say again all before'

The response would be:
  'I say again ...'

There is also 'I spell', when the word(s) weren't being received
correctly. 

This was published in 'Allied Communications Pub 125: Communications
Instructions -- Radiotelephone Procedures' (ACP 125), so these
procedures should be somewhat standardized across NATO forces.


73,
Steve K6ZX