[UK-CONTEST] Phonetics

[Ray James]

Wow!

Ken, with respect, please go to your local library and read "The Railway Man" by Eric Lomax.

73 Ray GM4CXM


--- On Fri, 21/9/12, Ken <ken.g3lvp at btinternet.com> wrote:

> From: Ken <ken.g3lvp at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Phonetics
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Friday, 21 September, 2012, 21:24
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:44:32
> +0100
> From: "Les Elliott"
> 
> Peter,
> You could try  Germany 8 America France Norway
> 
> Les, G4OGB
> 
> NO NO NO! Never Germany (or Mexico for M if it comes to
> that). History lesson for newer licensees....
> G stations never ever used 'G Germany' when I was first
> licensed possibly because there were so many people around
> then who had played their part in making sure that we
> weren't part of Germany, there were also many who would have
> heard Lord Haw-Haw's 'Germany Calling' and he was finally
> hanged as a traitor.  I'm not old enough to have heard
> those transmissions but G Germany still sounds wrong to me.
> You have been warned!
> 
> I suggest that the phonetic used for the prefix shouldn't be
> the name of a country unless it happens to be the same as
> the country where the station is located so F = France etc.
> might be acceptable but unless conditions are really
> difficult the standard alphabet for all its failings should
> be used.
> 
> If GOLF doesn't work then what's wrong with good old GEORGE?
> However I'd avoid/Gallipoli/  for G or/Xantippe/ 
> for X which were suggested in one phonetic alphabet!
> 
> Many of the words in the NATO/ICAO phonetic alphabet don't
> seem to work very well, I suppose that it was designed by a
> committee in Europe but perhaps the narrow audio bandwidth
> of (most) SSB transmissions now makes some of the phonetics
> less than ideal (if they ever were). I often shorten FOXTROT
> to FOX but there's always the tried & tested RAF 1942-43
> F for Freddy.
> 
> 73...
> 
> Ken
> 
> George 3 London Victoria Pacific if all else fails!
>  
> 
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