[SOC] Britishisms

Derek Wills oo7 at astro.as.utexas.edu
Fri Jan 14 12:31:37 EST 2005


> One of my absolute favorite SCI-FI authors used Zed for Zee in his
> books.  

   In the movie "Contact", the kid making the CQs ("come back!")
   was using Grote Reber's call  (he's one of the fathers of radio
   astronomy) except that instead of W9GFZ she used a different
   letter for the Z, presumably because of the Zed/Zee thing...

Derek aa5bt


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