"Alun" wrote
I already explained that Japan is suceptible of confusion with
Papa.
Jamaica would be better.

But it hasn't ever been confused with Portugal.

You are free to use Jamaica if you wish, but most experienced
contesters
will have to do a mental double-clutch to copy you. There goes your
Q-rate spiraling down the crapper.

73, de Hans, K0HB
Hamming for 45 years this month, and it just keeps getting better.


Any word that sounds like a different letter in the international
phonetic
alphabet should be avoided like the plague

Experience trumps theory, and in my experience using "Jamaica" as
phonetics for "J" would call for an instant fill and put a 3dB
down-spike on my rate meter.

If it's all the same with you, I'll just run down to the clinic and get
a plague shot and then continue my sinful ways.

73, de Hans, K0HB

"KØHB" wrote in news:%zHyc.2703$Wr.1505
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"Alun" wrote
I already explained that Japan is suceptible of confusion with
Papa. Jamaica would be better.

But it hasn't ever been confused with Portugal.

You are free to use Jamaica if you wish, but most experienced
contesters will have to do a mental double-clutch to copy you.
There goes your Q-rate spiraling down the crapper.

73, de Hans, K0HB
Hamming for 45 years this month, and it just keeps getting better.


Any word that sounds like a different letter in the international
phonetic alphabet should be avoided like the plague

Experience trumps theory, and in my experience using "Jamaica" as
phonetics for "J" would call for an instant fill and put a 3dB
down-spike on my rate meter.

If it's all the same with you, I'll just run down to the clinic and get
a plague shot and then continue my sinful ways.

73, de Hans, K0HB






You can do whatever you like, but it is precisely _because_ you and others
use 'Japan' as a phonetic that I have problems with people who think that
was what I said when I correctly pronounce the correct phonetic for the
letter P. This sucks!

"Alun" wrote

You can do whatever you like, but it is precisely _because_ you and
others
use 'Japan' as a phonetic that I have problems with people who think
that
was what I said when I correctly pronounce the correct phonetic for
the
letter P. This sucks!

Suck it may, but "Papa" and "Japan" do not sound alike to me. If you
say "Papa", I'll never type "J" into my log.

"Bravo" and "Papa" are much more often confused in my experience, and
both of them are on the "approved" phonetic set. "Oscar" and "Bravo"
are similarly often copied one for the other.

I've never known anyone to confuse "Portugal" for "Japan", "Brazil" for
"Portugal", or "Ontario" for "Brazil". Perhaps that's why this set is
so widely preferred over the ICAO set.

73, de Hans, K0HB