[TenTec] OT: Phonetics

[Dave Edwards]

Might want to also consider using that standardized phonetic alphabet!! 
(NATO phonetic alphabet)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Harpole" <k4vud at hotmail.com>
To: "Ten Tec List" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 9:56 AM
Subject: [TenTec] OT: Phonetics


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> I listen to state-side hams calling me
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> at HS0ZCW and wonder.  I give a R4-S7,
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> which is a nice way to say, "You are a whisper"
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> but the caller gives his call once and I have to
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> ask for repeat, then he sez it once, AGAIN, altho
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> I announced QRN and QSB.
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> Good ops:  Please tell ur friends to call
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> a DX, who has already announced his
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> difficult hearing condx, to call 3 times.
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> And use phonetics from place names, like
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> this:  America, Boston, Canada, Denmark,
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> England, Florida, Germany, Honolulu, Italy,
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> Japan, Kentucky, London, Mexico, Norway,
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> Ontario, Pacific, Quebec, Radio (a little town nr
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> Oslo), Santiago, Tokyo, United (everyone knows
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> United States in any language), Vermont, Washington,
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> X-Ray (ok  ok...), Yokohama, Zanzibar.
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> AND, when I can't get just one letter like "S"
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> say "Santiago" (repeat thrice) and then Sugar
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> (thrice), and even something else maybe.
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> So many hams are too afraid of taking up a DX's
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> time that they increase the waste time with
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> poor op practice.  I promise this is the last
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> rant this week (month?)
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> Charles Harpole
> k4vud at hotmail.com
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