[GreenKeys] ZZZZ or ZCZC?

[Doug Alderdice]

It would make sense.  On the AP and UPI news wires a FLASH indication, 
which was reserved for only the most dire news stories, was 10 bells.

73,

Doug, KA2WFT


On 10/21/2019 10:21 PM, E. wrote:
> 
> Came across this interesting bit of an article in an online book… am I 
> reading this right that there would be 10 bells on the weather wire, to 
> alert operators as to a warning on the wire?
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 16, 2019, at 8:56 pm, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net 
>> <mailto:jhhaynes at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Now that I have looked at the actual message - the first message is seen
>> to begin with ZCZC and then the ZZZZ line is a few lines down, which is
>> about where the precedence should be.  The second message may have had
>> the beginning with the ZCZC stripped off.   Well maybe the weather service
>> does use ZZZZ to indicate a very high precedence message - certainly a
>> warning of an imminent tornado should be of high precedence.
>