Correct, WTE_Goanna. At least that's what I learned in Tactical Communications back at the Navy.


Charlie-Charlie is rather new. It's the NATO-Description for cc, which stands for "Copy" or "Copy that", which simply mean that you had received a transmission and wrote it down in your comm-logs. It's also interesting that "copy that" sometimes is more common that "Roger" beyond radio-communications. Remember, that CC is also used in emails to send a message to more than one address. ;)

And what is Charlie?

Charlie for "C" as in the NATO-Alphabet for example.

# A - ALPHA
# B - BRAVO
# C - CHARLIE
# D - DELTA
# E - ECHO
# F - FOXTROT
# G - GOLF
# H - HOTEL
# I - INDIA
# J - JULIETT
# K - KILO
# L - LIMA
# M - MIKE
# N - NOVEMBER
# O - OSCAR
# P - PAPA
# Q - QUEBEC
# R - ROMEO
# S - SIERRA
# T - TANGO
# U - UNIFORM
# V - VICTOR
# W -WHISKEY
# X - XRAY
# Y - YANKEE
# Z - ZULU

In Asia especially when language barriers get involved the RT reply "Charlie Charlie" generally means affirmative or correct. Its widely used when dealing with places like Ujung etc :)

CC is also fabled to have originated from a double click of the transmitt button to mean "understood"

so Click - Click of the PTT was a simply an expeditious way of acknowledging receipt of transmission.

So CC has become charile-charlie once the phonetic alphabet came about.

I was taught this in private pilot training in communication with local towers and ground control at the smaller somewhat "uncontrolled fields"

here's the ww2 Military Phonetic Alphabet
Letter World War II
A Afirm (Able)
B Baker
C Charlie
D Dog
E Easy
F Fox
G George
H How
I Int (Item)
J Jig
K King
L Love
M Mike
N Negat (Nan)
O Option (Oboe)
P Prep (Peter)
Q Queen
R Roger
S Sugar
T Tare
U Uncle
V Victor
W William
X X-ray
Y Yoke
Z Zebra

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3...lmanualaq3.png

from:
Air Publication 1713
June, 1939
R.A.F.V.R. Signal Manual - Signalling Procedure

Date of the manual corrections is unknown.

In the RAF you do not use "over & Out" as Over means, "I have finished my message and await a response" out on the other hand means "I have finished my message and no repsonse expected" So by having both phrases you are going to cause confusion.
V

Correct.

Besides, "over and out" sounds so cheesy. :)

LOL

+1 :grin: