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Info-Hams Digest Mon, 14 Feb 94 Volume 94 : Issue 150
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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.....
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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
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.
The NATO phonetic alphabet (aka ICAO alphabet):
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
Telecom B:
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
British A:
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
Brian Kelk
Cambridge
U.K.
bck1@cl.cam.ac.uk
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