[CQ-Contest] Phonetics

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:01:11PM -0400, Stuart Santelmann KC1F wrote:
> > Well, Steve, I guess you have to live with that. Not everybody in the 
> > World
> > knows (and cares) about right abbreviation of the States.
> > That's why Mike-November is much better (same with Sierra-Juliet-Victor 
> > for
> > SJV).
> > What if someone in Rus DX Contest would tell you -"5x9, Chelyabinsk"? 
> > What
> > would you LOG? :-))
> >
> > And for someone who earlier had trouble spelling "E" - I can tell that
> > "Echo" works fine for me.
> >
> > regards,
> > Yuri  VE3DZ
> >
> 
> Hi Yuri:
> 
> Well, it seems to me that 25-30 years ago more people "knew or cared" about 
> worldwide geography and could name the 50 US states.  I think it would be 
> great if more people "knew or cared" about issues in other countries. 

It's not just Americans, either:
http://www.eubusiness.com/Institutions/061010153423.j0q6ens2

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Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
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