Subj : Test
To   : mark lewis
From : John Guillory
Date : Thu Jan 10 2019 01:23 am

  Re: Test
  By: mark lewis to Deon George on Tue Jan 08 2019 11:58 am

 >  PH>> Yep 5 x 5
 >  DG> I've seen this referenced many times - what is it?
 > scales range  from one to five, where one is the worst and five is the best.
 > The listening  station reports these numbers separated with the word "by".
 > Five by five  therefore means a signal that has excellent strength and
 > perfect clarity -- the
 > most understandable signal possible.
 >
 > Five by five by extension has come to mean "I understand you perfectly" in


Actually, the second 5 is a 1-9 range, so the signal is sorta ho-hum at best
quality.
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