breaker breaker, do you copy?

I'm breaking the extended radio silence, wondering if you still copy. Meanwhile comments on the previous post indicate one of my sister-in-laws has been driven to read an encyclopedia as a substitute for this blog... Hmm. Perhaps I'd better lighten up the tone round here.

I've been wondering about that phrase... breaker etc. Why did they used to say that in WWII anyway? I idly wondered whether it was an indication that someone was breaking radio silence, that this urgent message better get heard 'cause it wasn't going to be repeated. You'd think they would have covered it in the ham radio license course I did in my free time during my single year at the social-hierarchically-challenging Wellington College. (Now there's a way to tag yourself as lowly “geek” on the hierarchy.) But regarding the question, my quick flick through cyberspace couldn't give me a decent answer... anyone know?

Anyway, we've been out a fair bit, and we're out again tonight. We've been working on dark and mysterious plans. And we're late, so that's all I can say. More another time...  : )