But there are strong recommendations from the various Amateur Radio Socities
that you do.

And I have heard many times in pile-ups --- ITU Phonetics only and some DX
operators won't answer you with any other phonetics.

--
Lamont Cranston

The Shadow Knows
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"JJ" wrote in message
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Ryan, KC8PMX wrote:


As a
ham I am required to use the ITU phonetics.......

There is no rule that a ham must use a certain set if phonetics.