Bill wrote:

How did the term "Roger Wilco, Over and Out" get started? Is this just a term
from the old sci-fi and war "B" movies?


Bill N8KDV pointed out the meaning of the term WILCO. The term ROGER
(taken from previous phonetic alphabets and as mentioned prior to that
from morse and indeed semaphore) is used to signify that you've received
the message correctly, nothing more. The 2 terms OVER and OUT, almost
always misused in any movie, are 2 individual terms with different
meanings...OVER signifies to the station just finishing transmitting
that it is expecting a reply...OUT signifies that the station finishing
transmitting is finished but not expecting any further reply. Any real
radio operator/officer knows better than to say OVER and OUT. These are
of course voice procedure terms, standardized over decades of trial and
error to have a consistent sound in many languages as are the ITU
phonetic alphabet in worldwide use (except by some U.S. law enforcement
agencies I'm led to believe).

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 00:47:18 GMT, "G. Skiffington"
wrote:

Bill wrote:

How did the term "Roger Wilco, Over and Out" get started? Is this just a term
from the old sci-fi and war "B" movies?


Bill N8KDV pointed out the meaning of the term WILCO. The term ROGER
(taken from previous phonetic alphabets and as mentioned prior to that
from morse and indeed semaphore) is used to signify that you've received
the message correctly, nothing more. The 2 terms OVER and OUT, almost
always misused in any movie, are 2 individual terms with different
meanings...OVER signifies to the station just finishing transmitting
that it is expecting a reply...OUT signifies that the station finishing
transmitting is finished but not expecting any further reply. Any real
radio operator/officer knows better than to say OVER and OUT. These are
of course voice procedure terms, standardized over decades of trial and
error to have a consistent sound in many languages as are the ITU
phonetic alphabet in worldwide use (except by some U.S. law enforcement
agencies I'm led to believe).


Roger = Guy
Wilco = 2nd Guy
Over = The way first guy likes it
Out = Both - of the closet

"B Banton" wrote:
| Roger = Guy
| Wilco = 2nd Guy
| Over = The way first guy likes it
| Out = Both - of the closet

Now, if any of that were true, the taxonomy would be:

"Melvin....Creep."

73,

SL

Well, Roger without Wilco could mean "I understand but I won't comply." G

For kicks, we used to say things like:

"Roger, Wilco, Joe, Sam; over, under, in and out."

And:

"Roger, dodger, you old codger."

Bill, K5BY

Used as stated, in the movies by people that didn't know better.

"Bill" wrote in message
news:k4n9c.3197$pM1.1708@lakeread06...
How did the term "Roger Wilco, Over and Out" get started? Is this just a
term
from the old sci-fi and war "B" movies?

"CW" wrote in message
...
Used as stated, in the movies by people that didn't know better.


The same sort of movie knucklehead who will be anxiously listening to an
important radio message, and as it fades -- he grabs the tuning knob, and
starts twisting it around!!

Frank Dresser

Too long to give here but see URL:
http://ac6v.com/73.htm#roger

Lots more origins and meanings there

--
Incognito By Necessity (:-(

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- - -Harry S Truman




"Bill" wrote in message
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How did the term "Roger Wilco, Over and Out" get started? Is this just a
term
from the old sci-fi and war "B" movies?