[UK-CONTEST] Phonetics

[Andy Swiffin]

>>> On 06/09/2006 at 09:36, in message
<002c01c6d18f$7c0f3de0$0202a8c0 at g3rir3>,
"G3RIR" <g3rir at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.

But bear in mind that the NATO phonetics are almost always used in
conditions of absolutely Q5 copy (at least in civil aviation anyway).  I
try and stick with the official ones  but whenever I use Golf Mike eight
Oscar Echo Golf the response always comes back as 'gm8 Oscar Hotel
Golf'.

73
golf mike eight Ontario England Germany  (or Ontario Ecuador Guatamala
which seems to work well with the SAs :-)