[BC] Emergency Traffic /really drifitng on a Friday...

[Mike McCarthy]

I read in a couple different publications that plain speech is beginning to 
take preference over the 10 or Q codes. Military has used plain speech for 
years.  Roger, Message Received, Say again, etc.

There are at least 3 different 10 code standards out there and every town 
has a slight variation of the system.

MM

At 10:27 PM 9/8/2006 -0400, Alan Alsobrook wrote
>Miami-Dade County did, and still uses Q codes over 10 codes. Add to that 
>Florida Power & Light uses Q codes for its radio traffic state wide as well.
>I haven't done much scanner listening in that part of the state, but I was 
>told last week that 10 codes are now infiltrating in some agencies, but Q 
>codes were primary for most agencies in the Miami area for many years.
>
>Tom Bosscher wrote:
>>p.s., in the movie "Miami Vice", the Miami sergeant asks the boys, twice, 
>>what their QTH is!  Not "What's your 20", but "What's your QTH?"!
>--
>Alan Alsobrook CSRE AMD CBNT
>St. Augustine Fl. 32086 904-829-8885
>aalso at Bellsouth.net