[Milsurplus] CW "de" ?

[Jack Antonio]

On 6/4/2016 11:37 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Jack, I've never ever come across such usage.  Isn't TM 1-465 associated with codes and ciphers?

   Would you cite an example in some context?
>
> Mike / KK5F

Hi Mike,

Sure,

TM 1-465 covers Air Ground Communication, including radio and
visual (signal panels). Although the manual does mention codes
and ciphers, the bulk of the manual concerns operations, establishing
contact, net operations and the like. A good portion of the manual
covers radio operations between observation aircraft and artillery.

I'm going to quote Paragraph 44 on page 25.
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25. Call-up. -a. Definition.- A station whose call sign is AP2
contacts a station whose call sign is GN3 by means of the call up.

GN3 V AP2 AR

In the above, V is the prosine meaning "from", and prosine AR
means "End of transmission and standing by for your reply."


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It then goes on later to say,

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Assume that GN3 heard AP2 call him and AP2 was perfectly readable.
GN3 would reply:
AP2 V GN3 ZSB5 AR

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Note that I don't have the means to put the overline over the
AR denoting that it is sent as one character, not two separate letters.

In reading this manual it appears that I am going to have to find 
TM11-454, FM24-10 and FM 24-6, which covers Army and Joint
Army-Navy communications.

Jack