The Phonetic Alphabet

[Deleted member 478]

How do you remember it? Here's a crib-sheet I found at a local yacht club.

Alpha (male),
Bravo (well done old bean),
Delta (have you been to the Mississippi?),
oops missed Charlie,
Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo (you get the point)
Foxtrot (if you can dance),
Golf (only if you play off a ringer's handicap,
Hotel California,
ever thought of travelling through India?
Juliette (reminds me of Alpha)
Kilo (as I grow older, I accumulate many more under my belt)
Lima (Brazil has more single women)
Mike (it's your round)
November (how many shopping days to Xmas?)
Oscar (more American crap)
Popa (who's your daddy)
Quebec (Montreal should never have got the Olympics)
Roger (Master Bates and all his friends)
Sierra (if I was sober, I'd call you Sarah)
Tango (more dirty dancing)
Uniform (about as consistent as, as, as, as....)
Victor (popularity by election rigging)
Whiskey (well hello jimi)
X-ray (I can see through you now , the rain has gone. I can see all obstacles in my way)
Yankee (go home)
Zulu (probably has AIDs)

 

[tcm]

but doesn't a girl-whirdling sailor like you just know this anyway?

 

[Whitelighter]

I just remember it. never really had a problem, but have been using it since a kid, so that probably helps.

 

[VicS]

[ QUOTE ]
have been using it since a kid

[/ QUOTE ] so you are still using:
Able
Baker
Charlie
Dog
Easy
Fox
George
How
Item
Jig
King
Love
Mike
Nan
Oboe
Peter
Queen
Roger
Sugar
Tare
Uncle
Victor
William
X-ray
Yoke
Zebra

 

[Whitelighter]

er, no.

'cept the ones that are actually in the PA.

 

[Csail]

surely it is so easy anyway why do you need a referance??

 

[Whitelighter]

No I don't - see the previous answer.

 

[rich]

A mate of mine use to look after a boat called "Natasher alexandra" every time he called the local radio station, they would ask him to spell it /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[VicS]

[ QUOTE ]
every time he called the local radio station, they would ask him to spell it

[/ QUOTE ]

And I bet by the time he got to sierra or hotel they asked him to just spell it in ordinary letters!

 

[VicS]

[ QUOTE ]
'cept the ones that are actually in the PA.

[/ QUOTE ] That is the PA in my copy of Baden-Powell's "Scouting for Boys"

 

[moodycruiser]

When I was a Radio Officer we had tosend the name of the vessel as part of the header of every telegram (using morse code then) - happy days when on the "Orsino" but a real pain when on the "Ross Implacable" or the "Kingston Almandine" /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Sixpence]

I remember it because I've had to use it since I was 14 , and that's a few years ago . We just learned things back then .
Try learning the electronic formula for calculating the resonant frequency of an inductor / capacitor circuit , without something to help , and you are right up a creek .
And I know there are some on here that know the song , but hate to admit it /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[ytd]

isn't R romeo not roger?

 

[BrendanS]

depends which phonetic alphabet you are using. The recent BBC Radio 4 programme on the history of the radio phonetic alphabet, and how it evolved was compulsive listening

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Brendan,

"The recent BBC Radio 4 programme on the history of the radio phonetic alphabet, and how it evolved was compulsive listening"

Will you just listen to what you are saying........ /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[EASLOOP]

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[Judders]

I've never had a problem with it but I was contemplating an alternative for use in French waters. I never finished it though.

Agincourt
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
Nelson
O
P
Q
R
S
Trafalgar
U
V
Waterloo
X
Y
Z

I had it half done but I have forgotten it now.

 

[benjenbav]

To assist with a few:

B - Blucher
C - Crecy
D- Duke of Wellington
E - Edward III
H - Henry V

 

[Rivers & creeks]

L - Little Germany
V - Vichy

 

[jhr]

P - Petain
R - Reverse (gear, in a tank /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)