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

[Ron Cole]

Around the DFW metro area 10 codes are gone in most cities, Dallas still
uses them.
Most have there own Signal Code used to signal their operational status.

Most of the contact is in Plane speech.

Ron

On 9/8/06, Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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