Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.

[Balog]

That was the final transmission in Morse code from the French navy when they stopped using it. I hadn't thought about it, but apparently the world's navies tended to send out interesting last messages when they stopped using Morse.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53668116.html

[230RN]

RRR OM TNX FB DE TJ2YDF 73 QRT

Translation:

Received Received Received Old Man Thanks Fine Business This is (fake call sign) Goodbye  Going off the air.

(And I bitch about cell phone abbrs and acronyms.  Sheesh! Wotta hypocrite I R!)

Terry, 230RN

[AJ Dual]

That was the final transmission in Morse code from the French navy when they stopped using it. I hadn't thought about it, but apparently the world's navies tended to send out interesting last messages when they stopped using Morse.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53668116.html

I thought maybe that was going to be what they said before the British attack on Mers-el-Kébir to sink the surrendered French Navy was done. 

[CypherNinja]

http://xkcd.com/1362/