Re: Meaning and origin of term I've heard in a few movies

Five by Five is a commo man's term which rates Signal Strength and
Clarity on a
scale of one to five, so five by five is a techie way of saying LOUD ad
CLEAR.

Los
(ex-18E Special Operations Communications NCO, among other things)

Nathan Pettigrew wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Was watching Event Horizon last night and kept hearing the crew use
the term
> "five by five".  It seemed to indicate that everything is working
fine.  I
> thought that I've also heard the term in another SF movie (Aliens,
maybe?).
> I was wondering if anyone out there could say what the term means
(five by
> five what?) and where it came from.
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan