- 1. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: Eric Hilding <dx35@hilding.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:16:07 -0800
- It is obvious that Phonetics are a pain-in-the-butt for a lot of contesters. Whoever came up with the "official" list must have been a golfer. "Golf" simply sucks...I found this out during Field Day
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00067.html (7,839 bytes)
- 2. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "k7qq" <k7qq@netzero.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:50:07 -0000
- NOt a bad Idea, however a bad accent is in the eyes of the holder. That VU might just think a W6 K6 or better yet a W5 with an Okie accent has a bad accent. I have a hard time with some South America
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00070.html (9,509 bytes)
- 3. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "K0HB " <k-zero-hb@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:52:45 -00
- CONTESTER I propose the following: A Ate B Bait C Cue D Double-U E Eight F Five G Gnu H Hue I Ide J Jay K Knot L Late M Mate N Nine O One P Pneumatic Q Queue R Rate S Sea T Three U Ute V Vee W Why X
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00075.html (7,898 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Naumann - W5OV" <W5OV@W5OV.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 08:54:59 -0600
- Eric, Standardization is the key, and we don't need to re-invent the wheel here. The ICAO phonetics are fine, and the reason you had trouble with using "Golf" is because whoever you were working does
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00076.html (9,435 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Turner <dezrat1242@ispwest.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:31:16 -0800
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To the best of my recollection, it was the ICAO, the International Civil Aeronautics Organization, which originally created the phonetics. Their inte
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00081.html (8,437 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "Tim Makins" <tim.ei8ic@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:54:52 -0000
- I remember an article in the British mag 'Radcom' about twenty years ago suggesting a contest where all participants used the 'Aggle' series of phonetics: A=Aggle, B=Baggle, C=Caggle, D=Daggle, E=Eag
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00083.html (8,358 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "N5IET Bob" <rtnmi@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:21:50 -0600
- trouble doesn't Not "ICAO" its "ITU" PHONETICS Not "Golf" its "Gulf" Because everybody has a Gulf but not everybody knows about Golf. Unless of course you live in Ireland which is the original home
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00084.html (12,278 bytes)
- 8. [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "AA6DX - Mark" <aa6dx@arrl.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:33:02 -0800
- It is quite hard to comprehend the callsign from some non-English operators, especially -- it seems -- high-speed ops from Spanish speaking locales. Is there a consensus on how to nicely request a QR
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00085.html (7,757 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:48:52 -0800
- Hi Rick I remember some ham phoenetics that used to work pretty good. They started out with: Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox, George, Henry, Ida, etc etc. Remember those? They were HAM phoeneti
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00093.html (8,019 bytes)
- 10. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark Steven Williams" <k9gx@n4gn.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:30:16 -0000
- More appropriately stated proper speech and SSB technique is in the speech pattern, microphone technique, appropriate phonetics and audio processing I don't agree that a "bad accent", sloppy speech p
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00102.html (15,309 bytes)
- 11. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "N5IET Bob" <rtnmi@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 22:03:19 -0600
- You remember those Tom? Man I am glad I am not that old (blushing from lie) 73 fer nw, Bob N5IET 10X# 37210, FP#-1141, SMIRK#-5177 http://www.n5iet.com/ Code may be taking a back seat for now, but th
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00103.html (9,647 bytes)
- 12. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: <jukka.klemola@nokia.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 10:36:46 +0200
- ... 59 ! Let's see if someone will have the courage to do this. I will propose this to group of people behind the SAC. Don't get solo ownership of this idea as there are us others who want to share
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00110.html (10,119 bytes)
- 13. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "Cooper, Stewart" <coopers@odl.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 09:45:20 -0000
- I am, of course, Gable Mable Four Able Fable Fable. Or Give Me Four Apples For Fred. 73 Stewart GM4AFF/GM0F CONTESTER I propose the following: A Ate B Bait C Cue D Double-U E Eight F Five G Gnu H Hue
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00111.html (9,709 bytes)
- 14. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "Frank Hunt" <zl2br@ihug.co.nz>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:27:06 +1300
- I'm with Bob, one standard is enough. I wonder what sort of chaos would result on the Air Traffic freqs if pilots used their own personal favourite phonetic instead of the standard ones. To me it see
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00114.html (12,365 bytes)
- 15. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: W3DMB@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 06:56:17 EST
- Hi Tom, Actually - They (Able, Baker, Charlie... ) were the US Military standard phoenetics Before the mid 50s. They were changed after joint operations with NATO in 1950 revealed a problem with the
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00115.html (8,414 bytes)
- 16. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "Shelby Summerville" <k4ww@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 07:14:44 -0500
- Frank Hunt wrote: "Buy hey, what would I know, I've just about given up on SSB contests, and now stick to CW & RTTY contests :-)" Finally...it usually only takes me about 3-5 minutes of listening to
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00117.html (8,663 bytes)
- 17. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "Barry Merrill" <barry@mxg.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:51:07 -0600
- I just got a really well done reproduction of the 1926 ARRL "The Radio Amateur's Handbook", subtitled "A Manual of Amateur Short-Wave Radiotelegraphic Communication", that certainly went beyond its s
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00152.html (9,351 bytes)
- 18. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Smith <jimsmith@shaw.ca>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:35:52 -0800
- I remember being annoyed at having to learn that new-fangled Able Baker Charlie stuff (which BTW were used by the military - not just hams). What was wrong with good old Ack for A, Ink for I and Toc
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00155.html (11,391 bytes)
- 19. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Smith <jimsmith@shaw.ca>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:58:24 -0800
- The ATC environment is very different from the ham environment. Being channelized, they don't suffer much from QRM and SNR is usually pretty good so it's just a matter of distinguishing between sound
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00156.html (10,346 bytes)
- 20. Re: [CQ-Contest] Phonetics (score: 1)
- Author: "Gerard Lynch" <gerrylynch@freenetname.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:06:03 -0000
- I have a much better set of phonetics, with a proven record of getting through with poor SNRs and heavy QRM, and readily idenitifiable to most contesters regardless of native language or accent. It g
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2005-11/msg00163.html (10,657 bytes)
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