Heck dont ask me I get lost in a phone booth, worst yet half the time I have
a hard time finding out how to get out of that dang phone booth.lol

Ed
"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:35:16 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:39:00 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

"Two Tangos - 38 degrees Northwest"

seems like Hollywood gibberish to me. If I guess the context...

Tango shouldn't be plural and, like you, 38 degrees isn't Northwest.

OTOH.... has this anything to do with dance?

Tango equals target. SpecOp speech.

I was thinking about this last night and what I think they meant was
"Two Tangos - Northwest at 9 o'clock high" 9 o'clock high would be
about 38 degrees.

Of course, nothing like reality in a TV drama eh, what?

Could 9 o'clock high mean to your left and up if you were in a plane talking
to someone in the same plane, or a plane traveling in the same direction?
Could 38 degrees be referring to offset from the horizon? Just guessing
here.
JIMinFL
"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:35:16 GMT, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:39:00 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

"Two Tangos - 38 degrees Northwest"

seems like Hollywood gibberish to me. If I guess the context...

Tango shouldn't be plural and, like you, 38 degrees isn't Northwest.

OTOH.... has this anything to do with dance?

Tango equals target. SpecOp speech.

I was thinking about this last night and what I think they meant was
"Two Tangos - Northwest at 9 o'clock high" 9 o'clock high would be
about 38 degrees.

Of course, nothing like reality in a TV drama eh, what?

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message

"Two Tangos - 38 degrees Northwest".

Now pardon me if I'm not looking at this properly, but wouldn't 38
degrees be NNE?

They can't be coming out of the Northwest at 38 degrees, it would 322
degrees right? and if they were facing Northwest, 38 degrees would be
North.

Sounds like they got their technical advice on the cheap, from someone with
a background in land surveying or some similar discipline. A surveyor would
describe an azimuth of 322* as "North 38* West". A compass azimuth of 038*
wuld be "North 38* East", etc., etc.