Shelby and Steve,
It's true, many fellows use Kilowatt. I even had it printed on my first
batch of QSL cards.
It's another "nit" we can debate... The official phonetic is Kilo.
73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Harrison" <k0xp@dandy.net>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Good contact, back to you
> At 12:49 PM 2/23/2008 -0500, Shelby Summerville wrote:
>>Robert Chudek wrote: "After looking at the suggested exchanges the 5th
>>time, the only thing I would change is the proper phonetic for the letter
>>K.
>>It's kilo, not kilowatt."
>>
>>Hmmmmmmmm...If using kilowatt, instead of kilo, is a mistake, then I make
>>it
>>constantly? I'm not sure if anyone has logged me as KW4WW, but I know that
>>I
>>have never logged anyone using kilowatt, instead of kilo, as KW?
>
> Me, too. Technically, it should be only kilo but in reality, most of us
> say
> kilowatt when we mean K. In fact, if YOU say "kilo watt" to me as a
> phonetic for part of your callsign, I'm not going to understand you mean
> "KW" instead of just K. If you really mean "KW", most folks say "kilo
> whiskey" instead.
>
> Steve, K0XP
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