-----Original Message-----
From: Ian White, G3SEK <G3SEK@ifwtech.com>
To: amps@contesting.com <amps@contesting.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Date: 14 March 2002 12:02
Subject: Re: [Amps] 10 Meters
>>Not that I would recommend going back to the 1932 alphabet, where it was
>>Xanthippe for X!
>>
>"X-ray" is a particularly bad choice, because some languages pronounce
>it "ex" and others "ix" - which is probably why the French seem to
>prefer "Xylophone" (pron. "zeel-o-fon", but quite unmistakable after
>you've heard it once).
Not to mention the dreaded 'ygrec'.........
Apologies to any French speakers on the list, but in adjudicating UK VHF
contests, the percentage error rate was much higher for contacts with French
stations than for any other countries in western europe.
Steve
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