"Rodger That"

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I hate this kind of stupidity. As a radio amateur, I also am annoyed by common CB lingo which has migrated to the amateur bands

"Do ya gotta good copy on me?" is not even good grammar.

Yeh I gotta good copy on ya

"On the side." The side of WHAT?

And I had someone on a local VHF repeater ask me "what was my first personal?"

I told him "Not sure it's any of your business but if you really need to know, about 8 inches."
 
67Dart273 said:
I hate this kind of stupidity. As a radio amateur, I also am annoyed by common CB lingo which has migrated to the amateur bands

"Do ya gotta good copy on me?" is not even good grammar.

Yeh I gotta good copy on ya

"On the side." The side of WHAT?

And I had someone on a local VHF repeater ask me "what was my first personal?"

I told him "Not sure it's any of your business but if you really need to know, about 8 inches."
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Thought on the side was listening/monitoring but that was 50 years ago, copy that ? Lol
 
Think it comes from the military side of things. Roger (acknowledgement), That (what was just said), basically saying you understand and will act on what you were just told.

Personally the phrase annoys me, when I hear it I tell them I don’t know Roger or what “that” is..
 
We used “Affirm” or “Copy”. Not allowed to say Roger in military OR firefighting.

Roger. It seems like fighter pilot talk.
 
Well the Teams are like Airdales, the Navy band and Corpsman in that they do things their own way. They’ve adapted to what works best for them. Still pissed about all that training I had to go through thanks to Tail Hook!
 
I still remember laughing when the original "Cops" TV series came out. I think they were in FL at the time. The dispatcher would receive some info from the patrols and say "que-sell". Sort of slurred, I took some time to realize they were using the Q signal "QSL" which means "acknowledge receipt." There is a huge series of "Q" signals which were the original shorthand on Morse code landline, and later others were added for radio for ships at sea and aircraft. We amateurs use--over-use them. And many times use them in a stupid redundant manner. If I am using voice and say, "What's your QTH" what I have actually just said, is, "What is your what is your location?"

Q signals are great on CW (Morse) because they can either be a question or statement. If I send QTH ? BK that means "What is your location break" and you would come back with "QTH Coeur d Alene ID BK"

"Q" signals are also misused in ways such as "Are you running QRP? Which is a way of asking "are you running less than 5 watts transmitter power?" and funnier comebacks such as "Life is too short for QRP." QRP ACTUALLY was supposed to be used to ask "can you decrease transmitter power" and then "I will decrease power to XX" and so on. QRO is the opposite, "increase," and is also misused slang to mean that a person is running a high power amplifier.

Then there are the REALLY misused ones like "QBS". "Are you full of ****" Answer "Yes, R R, I am full of ****"

Or QLF which means "Your Morse is so bad, are you sending with your left foot?"

THAT one even made it into a flow chart in a Motorola manual. My boss and I were configuring a brand new (then) radio known as a (Motorola) Radius to take up to a hill for a temporary replacement for a customer, in order to bring a failed radio down for repair. He was having issues getting it programmed and configured (it's a repeater) and was reading the manual. Suddenly he laid over in his chair, laughing uncontrollably

The flow chart said something like

Symptom: "CW IDer is QLF"
Cause: "Operator is a LID"

This of course was an absolute joke by whoever wrote the manual.
 
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