[Milsurplus] [Glowbugs] CW "de" ?

[Nick England]

The 1929 Navy communications instructions show only V (except for comms
with merchant ships) so it was in use long before WW2.

"1028. The call sign of the station which has made the call or has
transmitted a message,
separated from that of the station answering by the sign "V" (from), and
followed by appropriate
procedure sign(s) is the normal method of answering.
Example: AB having called CD, CD might answer: AB V CD K."

I have 1913 and 1918 USN manuals which show DE.

It looks to me like the change happened some time after WW1 and lasted
until approx 1953. I found a 1954 NAVPERS manual with DE but a 1952 one
with V.


Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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