ROGER THAT In the days of the telegraph, the Morse code letter R - TopicsExpress



          

ROGER THAT In the days of the telegraph, the Morse code letter R (dot-dash-dot) was sometimes used to indicate "received" or "message received/understood." When radio voice communication began to replace telegraphs, Roger, the code word assigned to the letter R in the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet (the radio alphabet used by all branches of the United States military from 1941 to 1956), took on the same role. Contrary to what Hollywood would have you think, Roger only means "last transmission received/understood" and does not also mean or imply "I will comply." Wilco (Will Comply) is the code used if the speaker intends to convey "message received and will comply." Given that, the phrase Roger Wilco, which you so often hear in the movies, is redundant and not really used since Wilco alone covers all the base Read the full text here: mentalfloss/article/31513/whats-10-4%C2%9D-and-other-radio-lingo#ixzz2YnMUxYKS --brought to you by mental_floss!
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:40:08 +0000

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