Many of these seem dumb because they’d work better as just the actual word. Saying “ten four” is worse than saying “acknowledged”. It adds no additional information, just adds pointless complexity.
Some of them make sense because you might not want people in earshot to understand what you’re saying. But ones like 10-4 make no sense.
Poor radio signal. Im not sure if these codes were designed on the same premise as the phonetic alphabet but its the only good reason I can think of. Maybe they just wanted to sound cool.
I did a little websearching and the reasons were brevity and secrecy. This is a reasonable rationale for some of the codes, but not for ones like “acknowledged”.
The 10 in each of these is a filler. When starting radio communication you need to hold the button down for a second before talking if you want them to hear the beginning of your message. Having the 10 in the beginning allows you to say something that can easily be removed from the message, but the core of what you are saying still goes through.
Many of these seem dumb because they’d work better as just the actual word. Saying “ten four” is worse than saying “acknowledged”. It adds no additional information, just adds pointless complexity.
Some of them make sense because you might not want people in earshot to understand what you’re saying. But ones like 10-4 make no sense.
Is there some point to it that I’m not seeing?
Poor radio signal. Im not sure if these codes were designed on the same premise as the phonetic alphabet but its the only good reason I can think of. Maybe they just wanted to sound cool.
I did a little websearching and the reasons were brevity and secrecy. This is a reasonable rationale for some of the codes, but not for ones like “acknowledged”.
The 10 in each of these is a filler. When starting radio communication you need to hold the button down for a second before talking if you want them to hear the beginning of your message. Having the 10 in the beginning allows you to say something that can easily be removed from the message, but the core of what you are saying still goes through.