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Re: uo-14 and emergency traffic
- Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] uo-14 and emergency traffic
- From: Garie Halstead <k8kfj@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 05:37:46 +0000
On Friday, 11 August 2000, KK5DO wrote:
> am i missing something in the fcc rules on this? 'sos' is used for an
> emergency call on cw and 'mayday' is used for an emergency on sideband
> and according to the rules, 'break' is used for an emergency on fm.
On FM, the word "break" is used to break into a QSO.
For an emergency, a "double break" is used (as in BREAK BREAK).
At least, that's the protocol used here.
73 //Garie *K8KFJ*
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