Re: Signals


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Posted by Adam Quinan on January 01, 2003 at 15:31:02 from 66.185.85.76 user Adam.

In Reply to: Signals posted by Ed Kiser on January 01, 2003 at 04:00:22:

Ed wrote: This method of distinguishing the DOT from the DASH seems to be a bit different from that which I learned in the Boy Scouts,.....
Anybody have any official training in the art of signalling via one flag? Maybe you could shed some light on this discrepancy.

I suspect that there was no worldwide standard method of signalling, provided both parties were aware of the difference between a dot and dash, they could develop their own method.
International standards only really started to come in when Allied forces had to work in close proximity. My father tells me of having to learn a new phonetic alphabet when the Americans joined in in World War 2 and they had their own phonetic alphabet letter names which differed from the British ones but the two sides had to communicate.


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