11-01-2016, 08:23 PM
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City: Beaufort, NC USA
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 2,228
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jwnall
And just for the (much younger!) generations, back in the "good ole days," when the world was young, and lots of communications were done via radio, using Morse code, an "R" (dot-dash-dot) meant "received your message, no errors." Got much publicized during WWII, but existed for the ham radio community much earlier. Just saying. Oh, and "Roger" was the phonetic for the letter "R", so if you said it verbally, you said "roger."
Showing my age. And sometimes they "thank me for my service." Wish they would quit that. It was a bad idea, whoever started that. We joined for three squares and a place to crash. If you got shot, then that went with the territory
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I learned something new today! Thanks for that.
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