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September 26th 03, 08:13 PM
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Walt Davidson said :
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:34:30 -0700, "Caveat Lector" wrote: The NATO phonetic alphabet was developed in the 1950s to be intelligible (and pronounceable) to all NATO allies in the heat of battle ........ Although it consists of English words, its letter codewords can easily be recognised by speakers of languages other than English. Except Dutch and Spanish speakers, to whom "golf" is neither pronounceable nor intelligible! Even "mike" can be problematic at times. Heck, I wish I could find some other internationally-recoginsed phonetic for the letter i . Inmy experience, it's incredibly hard to get either India or Italy understood under marginal conditions. My suffix, IRT is usually mangled in contests and DX-peditions. The "Romeo Tango" bit comes through great, but the "India" gets lost. 73 de Peter, W2IRT (ex-AB2NZ, VE3THX) Please reply to Double-you Two Eye Are Tee at Arrl.net |
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September 27th 03, 01:49 AM
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September 29th 03, 02:35 PM
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Boy would that work well in a big pileup, Juliet x-ray papa is bad enough.
-- John Passaneau W3JXP State College Pa "Spurious Noise" wrote in message news:t85db.27751$Ms2.9893@fed1read03... Hmmm -- England, Italy, Yokohama didn't work??? -- 73 From the Spurious Noise ';';;';x":.,";"' "John Passaneau" wrote in message t... That was the reason I went to a vanity call sign. My old call WB8EIY was murder to get across. John Passaneau W3JXP State College, Pa |
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September 29th 03, 03:23 PM
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I have been in and listened to thousands of pileups over the years and the
DXer phonetics are very commonly used. Is that right or wrong -- I don't know - but sure is a fact of DX life. And they seem to work as well as the NATO phonetics. Many many top gun DXers use them. Just listen to the pileups (:-( This is NOT to necessarily recommend or deny the practice -- just stating what many DXers use. Whether to use them or not is a separate issue. (Start a thread if you want!) FYI: I know several DXpeditioners who will not answer anyone using anything BUT NATO phonetics or to recognize those using "Lass Two" -- last two letters of the suffix. But You will hear some DX stations ask for "Lass Two". This also is common practice. (Sometime in 10 minutes one should give their full call - huh?) FYI: Unofficial DXer Phonetics, compiled after listening to more pileups than I care to remember (:-) a.. A......AMERICA, Amsterdam b.. B......BOSTON, Baltimore, Brazil c.. C......CANADA, Columbia, Chile d.. D......DENMARK e.. E......ENGLAND, Egypt f.. F......FRANCE, Finland g.. G.....GERMANY, Guatemala, Geneva, Greece h.. H.....HONOLULU, Hawaii i.. I.......ITALY j.. J......JAPAN k.. K......KILOWATT, Kentucky, King l.. L......LONDON, Lima, Luxembourg m.. M......MEXICO, Montreal n.. N......NORWAY, Nicaragua o.. O......ONTARIO, Ocean, p.. P......PORTUGAL, Pacific q.. Q......QUEBEC, Queen r.. R......RADIO, Romania, Russia s.. S......SANTIAGO, Spain, Sweden t.. T......TOKYO, Texas u.. U......UNITED, URUGUAY v.. V...... VICTORIA, Venezuela w.. W......WASHINGTON x.. X......X-RAY y.. Y......YOKOHAMA z.. Z...... ZANZIBAR, Zulu -- 73 From the Spurious Noise ';';;';x":.,";"' ============================================ "John Passaneau" wrote in message ... Boy would that work well in a big pileup, Juliet x-ray papa is bad enough. -- John Passaneau W3JXP State College Pa "Spurious Noise" wrote in message news:t85db.27751$Ms2.9893@fed1read03... Hmmm -- England, Italy, Yokohama didn't work??? -- 73 From the Spurious Noise ';';;';x":.,";"' "John Passaneau" wrote in message t... That was the reason I went to a vanity call sign. My old call WB8EIY was murder to get across. John Passaneau W3JXP State College, Pa |
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September 29th 03, 03:23 PM
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I have been in and listened to thousands of pileups over the years and the
DXer phonetics are very commonly used. Is that right or wrong -- I don't know - but sure is a fact of DX life. And they seem to work as well as the NATO phonetics. Many many top gun DXers use them. Just listen to the pileups (:-( This is NOT to necessarily recommend or deny the practice -- just stating what many DXers use. Whether to use them or not is a separate issue. (Start a thread if you want!) FYI: I know several DXpeditioners who will not answer anyone using anything BUT NATO phonetics or to recognize those using "Lass Two" -- last two letters of the suffix. But You will hear some DX stations ask for "Lass Two". This also is common practice. (Sometime in 10 minutes one should give their full call - huh?) FYI: Unofficial DXer Phonetics, compiled after listening to more pileups than I care to remember (:-) a.. A......AMERICA, Amsterdam b.. B......BOSTON, Baltimore, Brazil c.. C......CANADA, Columbia, Chile d.. D......DENMARK e.. E......ENGLAND, Egypt f.. F......FRANCE, Finland g.. G.....GERMANY, Guatemala, Geneva, Greece h.. H.....HONOLULU, Hawaii i.. I.......ITALY j.. J......JAPAN k.. K......KILOWATT, Kentucky, King l.. L......LONDON, Lima, Luxembourg m.. M......MEXICO, Montreal n.. N......NORWAY, Nicaragua o.. O......ONTARIO, Ocean, p.. P......PORTUGAL, Pacific q.. Q......QUEBEC, Queen r.. R......RADIO, Romania, Russia s.. S......SANTIAGO, Spain, Sweden t.. T......TOKYO, Texas u.. U......UNITED, URUGUAY v.. V...... VICTORIA, Venezuela w.. W......WASHINGTON x.. X......X-RAY y.. Y......YOKOHAMA z.. Z...... ZANZIBAR, Zulu -- 73 From the Spurious Noise ';';;';x":.,";"' ============================================ "John Passaneau" wrote in message ... Boy would that work well in a big pileup, Juliet x-ray papa is bad enough. -- John Passaneau W3JXP State College Pa "Spurious Noise" wrote in message news:t85db.27751$Ms2.9893@fed1read03... Hmmm -- England, Italy, Yokohama didn't work??? -- 73 From the Spurious Noise ';';;';x":.,";"' "John Passaneau" wrote in message t... That was the reason I went to a vanity call sign. My old call WB8EIY was murder to get across. John Passaneau W3JXP State College, Pa |
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September 29th 03, 02:35 PM
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Boy would that work well in a big pileup, Juliet x-ray papa is bad enough.
-- John Passaneau W3JXP State College Pa "Spurious Noise" wrote in message news:t85db.27751$Ms2.9893@fed1read03... Hmmm -- England, Italy, Yokohama didn't work??? -- 73 From the Spurious Noise ';';;';x":.,";"' "John Passaneau" wrote in message t... That was the reason I went to a vanity call sign. My old call WB8EIY was murder to get across. John Passaneau W3JXP State College, Pa |
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September 27th 03, 01:49 AM
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September 27th 03, 12:38 AM
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That was the reason I went to a vanity call sign. My old call WB8EIY was
murder to get across. -- John Passaneau W3JXP State College, Pa "Peter Dougherty" wrote in message ... Walt Davidson said : On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:34:30 -0700, "Caveat Lector" wrote: The NATO phonetic alphabet was developed in the 1950s to be intelligible (and pronounceable) to all NATO allies in the heat of battle ........ Although it consists of English words, its letter codewords can easily be recognised by speakers of languages other than English. Except Dutch and Spanish speakers, to whom "golf" is neither pronounceable nor intelligible! Even "mike" can be problematic at times. Heck, I wish I could find some other internationally-recoginsed phonetic for the letter i . Inmy experience, it's incredibly hard to get either India or Italy understood under marginal conditions. My suffix, IRT is usually mangled in contests and DX-peditions. The "Romeo Tango" bit comes through great, but the "India" gets lost. 73 de Peter, W2IRT (ex-AB2NZ, VE3THX) Please reply to Double-you Two Eye Are Tee at Arrl.net |
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