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"Steve Silverwood" wrote in message ... In article , jder8745 @aol.com says... Recently I hear more and more hams using "kilowatt" as the phonetic for the letter K. The correct phonetic is "kilo". Could this be considered, "hamming it up?" groan Steve - this sort of nit-pick has no place in ham radio. There are many phonetic word lists, and they all have different words: International, Police, ITU, ARRL, Navy, Western Union, ICAO(CAA) - and not a one of them is illegal to use, and even the cute self-created ones work just fine. Yes, if I were doing police dispatching, I would use the police phonetics. But this is amateur radio, and it's supposed to be fun. In Ohio days I stopped using WILD ZEBRAS 8 ALFALFA because the "8" got confused with the "A"(as in "ate"). But as long as you could tell the call was WZ8A, it was legal. You would probably correct me if I said my "handle is Andy." Understand that the use of "handle," as a cute substitute for "name," was going on long before CB ever existed. I was saying "my handle is Andy" on the 11-meter ham band back in 1959. Hams probably picked it up from the military. The strict protocol may be good training for traffic nets and such, but please loosen up a little. That stuffed-shirt stuff could take the fun out of the hobby for a beginner, and there is no reason for it. Think I'll turn on the rig and send a "dit-dah-dah-dit-dit" waiting for a "dit-dit" back (instead of a CQ call). It's legal, as long as I send my call within ten minutes. 73, King 4 Young King Zebra |
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