[GreenKeys] ZZZZ or ZCZC?

[Richard Knoppow]

    United Press used ten bells to indicate a "flash", Associated 
Press used twelve bells. A flash is a very brief alert that a 
very important story is breaking and will follow soon. Generally 
a flash is more than a sentence or two. Both UP and AP had strict 
limits on how many flashes there could be. They were meant for 
only the most urgent stories.
    I don't know what the weather service practice was but likely 
they could have used a similar bell alert for very urgent messages.

On 10/21/2019 7:39 PM, Doug Alderdice wrote:
> 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.
>>
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