Roger that...

[WTE_Goanna]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

and .... over & out.. means that the transmission is finished and you are signing off..

Interpretations may vary depending on where you live eg BC's over & out - here in Australia when I was doing my sig training (in the 80's) over meant " I have finished my transmission and am waiting for your response". Out meant " I have finished my transmission and I do not require you to respond". We used to get a proverbial kick in the butt from the RSO if we used over and out

Cheers

Goanna

[IvanK]

And in some parts of the World there is "Charlie Charlie" !

[Feuerfalke]

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.

[revi]

Originally Posted by IvanK

And in some parts of the World there is "Charlie Charlie" !

And what is Charlie?

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by revi

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

[IvanK]

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

[Beowulf]

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

[41Sqn_Banks]

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

Date of the manual corrections is unknown.