I looked through the codes and didn’t find ANY that started with Alpha; all the three-letter codes started with Bravo (the first one is “BCD”, abandon).
The Alpha flag by itself means “diver down.” Maybe “AMF” means “diver down, M^%$*& F%$#@!” :^) Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- Bayfield, WI > On Sep 18, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Marek Dziedzic via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > not to spoil the fun, but the International Flag Code is hardly ever used to > spell anything. Each combination of flags has its own meaning (very seldom in > any way related to the letters used). > > I don’t have handy the full IFC manual to decode “AMF”, but I bet it has a > meaning and it is different from the one used in the Morse code. > > E.g. all three letter codes starting with M are reserved for medical messages > (MIT – patient has persistent hiccoughs, or MTD32 – You should give aspirin > tablets, or (an interesting one) MGF – patient has cut throat). > > Marek
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