here's a reference for anyone who has ever wondered what the verbal hash is about when military, police, aviation, ham, or other radio types spell out words. each letter is deliberately spoken as a particular word (beginning with the chosen letter), to avoid confusion over fuzzy frequencies from sound-alike letters, e.g. "c", "d", "e", "g", "p", "t", "v" and "z". the military and aviation phonetic alphabet is as follows:
Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
India
Juliet
Kilo
Mike
November
Oscar
Papa (accent on the second syllable)
Quebec
Romeo
Sierra
Tango
Uniform
Victor
Whiskey
X-ray
Yankee
Zulu
once you have those down, you can start working on the Morse code equivalents !
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There are actually several in practice. Some unoffical ham radio lists use place names, apparently in an effort to be more universally understood. Those are: America Boston Canada Denmark England France Germany
ReplyDeleteHonolulu Japan Kilowatt London Mexico Norway Ontario/Ocean
Pacific Radio Santiago/Spain Tokyo United Victoria
Washington Yokohama Zanzibar
This one is in pretty common use on the air, even though its status is unofficial.
And it is not necessary to know these to start on Morse Code, so Start Now.
--scb--