I think it was Dave W9GR who came up with those phonetics. The rest of us just started using them. Dave has a way with words. :-) 73, Zack W9SZ On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Jan Erik Holm wrote: > I still remember the phonetics W9 Yippie Hippie, > don´t know who the operator was. > > 73 Jim SM2EKM