Re: Beethoven's Fifth Time Signals

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Stephen R. Low wrote:

> 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.

Quite so.  And many radio stations began using those 4 notes as a time
signal at the top of the hour during World War II.  But unlike WTIC, most
of them had stopped by the early 1950s. 

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