At 07:15 am 08/06/2006 +0200, you wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Walter Faxon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:54 AM >Subject: Re: Battery shapes - second copy > > >> Jed Rothwell wrote: >> >>> [I sent this earlier but it did not appear to come >>> through. It is unimportant, but I am curious to see >>> whether there is a problem with Vortex.] >> >> >> There may indeed be a problem. At least two of my mailings to Vortex did >> not post but also did not bounce. >> >> Also I'm confused about some postings of Michel Jullian which are >> referenced by other posters but appear neither in the mail archives >> (www.mail-archive.com) nor in the mailed message summaries. E.g., in the >> post: >> >> Re: CQ CQ CQ >> Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:57:13 -0700 >> from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Akira Kawasaki) >> >> unless Michel "replies" to other than the original poster. > >This one is not a bug, it's just that Akira double posted (booh, thanks for >the Morse codes though ;-) a reply he made to me in another mailing list >(CMNS) where Steve had also started a "CQ CQ CQ" thread. BTW I finally Googled >it up, CQ originally comes from French sécu(rité) surprisingly, not from "seek >you", "come quick" nor "Collin' Quinney" ;-) >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ_(call) > >Michel
I've now found a cached version of the original at Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ_%28call%29"; which reads, The CQ call was originally used by landline telegraphy operators in the UK. French was, and still is, the official language for international postal services, and the word sécurité was used to mean 'safety' or 'pay attention'. It is still used in this sense in international telecommunications. The letters CQ, when pronounced in French, resemble the first two syllables of sécurité, and were therefore used as shorthand for the word. In English-speaking countries, the origin of the abbreviation was popularly changed to the phrase "seek you", or later, when used in the CQD distress call, to the command "come quick". CQ was adopted by the Marconi company in 1904 for use in wireless (spark) telegraphy, and was adopted internationally at the 1912 London Radiotelegraph Convention, and is still used. Seems genuine enough and since it was last edited in March I can't imagine why it's been pulled. Frank
