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Old 21st Feb 2009, 11:51
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Ah yes "charlie charlie" ....

If my memory during the days of being a
Radio operator serves me well, it was used when transmitting morse on HF as an abbreviation for "confirmed". We'd transmit -.-. (C) twice - ie. two C's rather than keying the full word. How the hell it made it into aircraft radio telephony is amusing, especially in that I doubt many that say it actually know it's origin!
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