Re: Beethoven's Fifth Time Signals

["Stephen R. Low" <gordian1@concentric.net>]

>There was some discussion on the Old-Time Radio mailing list about some
>stations that used the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as
>the time signal at the top of the hour during World War II.

I seem to recall that those 4 "notes" were intended to be the Morse code
letter "V" for Victory. I also seem to recall that Beethoven's Fifth,
indeed, is sometimes knows as the Victory Symphony.

Steve Low

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