Might want to also consider using that standardized phonetic alphabet!!
(NATO phonetic alphabet)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Harpole" <k4vud@hotmail.com>
To: "Ten Tec List" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 9:56 AM
Subject: [TenTec] OT: Phonetics
I listen to state-side hams calling me
at HS0ZCW and wonder. I give a R4-S7,
which is a nice way to say, "You are a whisper"
but the caller gives his call once and I have to
ask for repeat, then he sez it once, AGAIN, altho
I announced QRN and QSB.
Good ops: Please tell ur friends to call
a DX, who has already announced his
difficult hearing condx, to call 3 times.
And use phonetics from place names, like
this: America, Boston, Canada, Denmark,
England, Florida, Germany, Honolulu, Italy,
Japan, Kentucky, London, Mexico, Norway,
Ontario, Pacific, Quebec, Radio (a little town nr
Oslo), Santiago, Tokyo, United (everyone knows
United States in any language), Vermont, Washington,
X-Ray (ok ok...), Yokohama, Zanzibar.
AND, when I can't get just one letter like "S"
say "Santiago" (repeat thrice) and then Sugar
(thrice), and even something else maybe.
So many hams are too afraid of taking up a DX's
time that they increase the waste time with
poor op practice. I promise this is the last
rant this week (month?)
Charles Harpole
k4vud@hotmail.com
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