17 thoughts on “Over!

    1. Computational Group Theory?

      Capital Gains Tax?

      Computer Generated Thought?

      Hm, that last one does sound kind of like me… wait, International, or American?  JGT?  Now you’ve gone and mucked my brain, Ward.Report

  1. Tangentially related: When I play basketball with my kids, if anyone ever calls out the score of a 10-4 game I immediately say Good Buddy.

    They have no idea what I am talking about.Report

        1. Hams use the Q-code, when they code over Morse.  Other than “CQ“, not very many codes are in regular usage on the air in spoken transmissions anymore (I’m given to understand, I haven’t spent enough time on the air myself to have a real opinion).

          CBers have their own slang.Report

  2. Bonus points if you know what YYZ stands for

    Da dit da da da dit da da da da dit dit. 🙂

    Course I got lazy after getting my novice back in the stone ages (we banged rocks together to make our morse code) IIRC when I was 11. I still remember my call sign and wouldn’t you know it stated with Whiskey too?Report

    1. YYZ means “we’re home”, in lingua Rusha.  I’ve heard that story before.

      You don’t have your license any more, Ward?  You should re-up.Report

          1. Well, they’re a Canadian band. So that could be more or less the same thing for them.

            That’s about a 30-year old mystery for me solved. Not like I’ve been obsessing over it or anything; just occurred to me when I saw the post.Report

            1. Rod if you’re a pilot (and I believe 2 members of the band Rush are licensed pilots, definitely Lifesong is and I think Geddy Lee) you tune in your VOR for Toronto (if you’re close enough) and it keeps repeating the morse code I put in above. Sometimes a good pilot will select the monitor switch and listen to the code just to make sure the radio equipment is operating properly. You could say the song sort of wrote itself. Go to this site, paste in YYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZYYZ and press the play button. Adjust the Farnsworth speed and you can get it to start sounding like the song.Report

  3. Did you know (I didn’t until years after I started working here) that NASA Goddard Space Flight Center used to be a guide star for HAM radio?

    You probably did. And don’t care. This is obvy me saying I work somewhere cool by standards I know nothing of.

    Plus, I might have it wrong. But, the HAM radio guys around here told me this, so I’m curious: How important was Greenbelt, Maryland, to HAM radio in the late 50’s early 60’s?Report

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