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- Info-Hams Digest Mon, 14 Feb 94 Volume 94 : Issue 150
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- Today's Topics:
- A is for alpha.....
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- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 18:58:21 GMT
- From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!bck1@ames.arpa
- Subject: A is for alpha.....
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- In article <erik_read-100294175751@gardner2.life.uiuc.edu> erik_read@qms1.life.uiuc.edu (erik read) writes:
- >I have a friend who speaks english badly and does not choose words to
- >describe the letters. I think the military has a thing where they use
- >standardized, easily recognisable words, like alpha, bravo, charlie,
- >etc......
- >I myself do not know them all and I really think that this would help a
- >lot.
- >Can anyone help me? Is this the right place to be posting?
- >
- >Thanks in advance; Erik
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- There are a number of different phonetic alphabets, though
- Alpha Bravo ... Yankee Zulu is probably by far the best known,
- being used internationally for air traffic control, for example.
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- The NATO phonetic alphabet (aka ICAO alphabet):
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- Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India
- Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo
- Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu
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- Telecom B:
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- Alfred Benjamin Charles David Edward Frederick George Harry
- Isaac Jack King London Mary Nellie Oliver Peter Queen Robert
- Samuel Tommy Uncle Victor William Xray Yellow Zebra
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- British A:
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- Amsterdam Baltimore Casablanca Denmark Edison Florida
- Gallipoli Havana Italia Jerusalem Kilogramme Liverpool
- Madagascar New_York Oslo Paris Quebec Roma Santiago Tripoli
- Uppsala Valencia Washington Xantippe Yokohama Zurich
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- Brian Kelk
- Cambridge
- U.K.
- bck1@cl.cam.ac.uk
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