[UK-CONTEST] Phonetics

[Peter Hobbs]

Bear in mind that the geographical alphabet predated the NATO one and is 
still widely used - I guess you just have to "tune in".  Maybe a bit hard to 
impose NATO on everyone!  I was brought up on Able Baker Charlie Dog, which 
I still tend to lapse into on rare SSB excursions - now that does cause 
confusion . . .

73, Peter G3LET

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Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:36 AM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Phonetics


> What are others views about phonetics. I was always taught to use the NATO
> services alphabet which used to appear in my licence.
>
> Last night I had great difficulty picking out a callsign amongst noise
> because CANADA was being used for C.  Now the C in Canada is hard like a 
> K.
> The C in CHARLIE is soft. By all means use alternatives for phonetics but
> surely a fundamental change like soft to hard C is not conducive to speedy
> operating.
>
> Neil, G3RIR
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