Re: FIC: Restart(Or - Five by Five what?)

[Tater <tater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:50 PM 3/2/00 -0800, you wrote:
> From: Erin <erin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:23:34 -0500 , you wrote:
>
> > From: "Clarke, Carol A - Hazelwood" <CAClarke2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Great story as always Pat. But you will add more right because I need to
> > know what happens. And what does 5 by 5 mean?
>
> Five by five is radio slang. Basically you'd call out for anyone to
> tell you what your signal strength is, and someone would (hopefully)
> reply that you were coming in 5 by 5, which meant "loud and clear"
> basically. The instruments they had which measured that had 5 hash
> marks on it.
>
> Of course, Faith uses it to mean either "you're coming in loud and
> clear/I understand you", or "everything's ok/I'm ok" depending on
> context. :)
>
> Erin
> --


It's also used by military pilots to mean, "everything's ok" as well as
"loud and clear."


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