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CommmentsI'm sure you've heard people on the phone or more likely on a radio listing out names for letters. The phonetic names are used so there isn't any confusion between F, S on the phone or radio. Instead you'd say Foxtrot Sierra and nobody would get it wrong. Here's the complete list:
| Alpha | Bravo | Charlie | Delta | Echo |
| Foxtrot | Golf | Hotel | India | Juliet |
| Kilo | Lima | Mike | November | Oscar |
| Papa | Quebec | Romeo | Sierra | Tango |
| Uniform | Victor | Whiskey | X-Ray | Yankee |
| Zulu |
The interesting thing is you can then use your initials to come up with your phoentic name or radio name. Mine would be Delta Sierra (uninteresting) - other friends of mine (you know who you are) would be Juliet Delta, Juliet Papa (I like that one), Tango Zulu, and Papa Yankee (fitting.)
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| Posted by scottsh on Friday September 03, 2004 - 2:04 PM
| Category: Science and Technology
| © 2004 SF Signal
Come to Papa!
And don't forget, Kilo Bravo, although he has lost weight recently...
Posted by JP on Friday September 03, 2004 at 2:29 PM
Reminds me of the Star Wars Name Generator and the host of other generators.
Posted by John on Friday September 03, 2004 at 4:12 PM
You're damn right I'm Papa Yankee!! My brother is Victor Yankee which is even more fitting, seeing how his name is Victor.
JP, you got it wrong -- you mean "come to Juliet!" I guess we can just call you Jules...
Posted by Pete on Friday September 03, 2004 at 4:33 PM
Okay that starwars one is totally lame. I mean if your going to be geeky enough to create a name creation tool - at least have the common decency to come up with something not so sucky...
Posted by Tim on Friday September 03, 2004 at 9:24 PM
Looks like Scott's post here got picked up over at Spacecraft by Prof. Hall. Nice!
And I have to tell you, I have seared, seared!, into my memory the call letters of my dad's ham radio license from when I was a kid. Whiskey Bravo 5 Delta Bravo Tango
Over and over and over again. Oh, and the smell of warmed up vacuum tubes....
Posted by JP on Friday September 03, 2004 at 10:57 PM
HELLO MY NAME IS Alexandra and i was wondering if you could tell me if the name Alexandra is or can be spelt phonetically. i would really be pleased if you could let me know as it is for my english project.
Many Thanks
Alexandra
Posted by Alexandra on Wednesday August 17, 2005 at 3:32 PM