Naval signalmen, generally apprentices, become very expert, and the rapidity with which they can wigwag sentences is really remarkable.
In the American navy the present methods of communication are by the use of flags representing numerals, by the Meyer code of wigwag signals, and by a system of colored electric bulbs suspended in the rigging.
A signal boy on the "Brooklyn" held a long wigwag conversation with the flagship, the bit of bright color showing sharply against the lead-colored turret.
Why, just to look at him you'd think he was sending a message like we do with the wigwag flags in the day time.
But I tell you right now, after this I'm going in for wigwagwork the hardest you ever saw.
How fortunate that was, Step Hen reflected, just now, when he found himself placed in a position where a knowledge of wigwag work was going to prove of the utmost importance to the boy whom the scouts had taken in charge.
We've learned the semaphore, wigwag and Ardois, and I think we can give the signal boys on the bridge a run for their money; but I can't seem to get these sound signals.
The boys fired again and again, flashed their lights in wigwag signals, but the aeroplane did not come nearer.
Those wigwag signals show the supposition to be true.
Then we'll fire our revolvers and wigwag with blazing sticks until they see who we are.
You're up in all that kind of wigwag signal work, and perhaps now you could tell what it means.
They ought to get up there about noon, and for two hours wigwag to each other, sending and receiving messages that are to be kept in books provided for the purpose.
They would not have been true Boy Scouts if they had not before now learned how to wigwag with flags, or lanterns, as well as use a looking-glass in the sun in heliograph telegraphy.
The latter knew that in all probability there had been more to the wigwag talk than Allan chose to state; but he was willing to wait until a more propitious time to hear it.
There's no use staying any longer up here, unless you think I'd better get Jud again, and wigwag him all that we've learned up to now.
Paul showed them that when they wanted to signal with smoke, as all scouts are taught to do when learning the wigwag code, they must be careful to select only this latter kind of wood, since the other would not answer the purpose.
Paul, when doing his wigwag act, had been careful to keep the crest of the hill between his flag and that suspicious quarter where the smoke column was lazily creeping up, as smoke has a habit of doing just before rain comes.
Nobody hardly ever goes there except to shoot snipe and woodcock in the fall, and yet we happen to know there's one person hiding out there, and that he knows Todd Pemberton, for they've been exchanging signals through the wigwag code.
And it don't look like just waving at the steamer either, for they do it after a system, as we would signal with wigwag flags.
Or if we had ourwigwag flags along with us," and Andy actually groaned with the suspense.
Or we could use the wigwag code, which some of the Boy Scouts would translate.
Why, without the wigwag telegraph we'd never be able to let him know one single thing.
Just now we ought to bend our minds wholly on finding the right sort of tree for my wigwag station.
The Myer wigwag system is employed either by day or by night.
The receiving of the messages will depend on the able way he takes them, whether by heliograph or wigwag work.
There are others besides Bud Morgan who know the ins and outs of wigwag work, telegraphing, and the use of the mirror in the sun that we call heliographing.
The United States Army and Navy have their own wigwag alphabet, which is named the Myer alphabet, in compliment to Brevet Brigadier-General Albert J.
The figure 1, like the wigwag dot, is a quick sweep of the flag to the right, from the perpendicular to the level of the waist, or one quarter of a circle.
The relief of the boys at the information conveyed by the wigwag signals from the shore may well be imagined.
When Frank related the story of the night, in his presence, he laughed and asked for the wigwag code which Frank had used.
The pole which had been used to convey the wigwagsignals was now out of sight.
Blessed if he ain't doing the wigwag with his body!
These told that the rebels were advancing steadily upward toward the spot where the men who had meant to waylay the wigwag operator had taken up their positions.
It's a whole lot easier than wigwag work, where your arms get so tired waving flags.
But I wanted to ask if you thought you could bother taking a few short messages with the wigwag flags?
But Tubby knew his Myers' wigwag code all right, and could receive better than nearly any fellow on the roster of the Eagle Patrol.
Say, I hope now none of that outfit can readwigwag work!
Minervy could have the secret cave away up the hill, and I'd have the other one across from it; and we'd have flags and wigwag messages like daddy tells about in the war.
And whichever seen a coyote first would wigwag to the other one.
Reddy stood by him with hiswigwag flag to answer back.
The following table gives the different combinations used for various letters: The Wigwag Alphabet.
