The "NATO" alphabet is absolutely horrible for my call suffix. (two long "o" sounds) America Denmark five Ham Radio always works
We have it on agenda, which I keep OBSESSING over. ;} Subscribe to "Ham Radio Perspectives" YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3MJT8o8-XMxF8XROf7Q5GA/videos
Hard to beat "Ham Radio" with anything! Great call. Subscribe to "Ham Radio Perspectives" YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3MJT8o8-XMxF8XROf7Q5GA/videos
) Clearly sir, (as seen by your QRZ biography page) you are a 2+2=5, cause YOU think so, therefore it is, kinda person. sorry for wasting your time.
Interesting on the 75m use of "for ID"... It eventually migrated to 2m repeaters about twenty years ago. At least, here in the SFO Bay Area. 73, Eric
I believe that I first heard it on 2m in the late 1980s to early 1990s. I was very active on 75m at that time, and at least for me, I heard it on 2m first.
A good friend I elmered years ago, since SK, ended up with a call, after changing it on upgrading, ending in TUU. I immediately dubbed him, "Tangled Up Underwear" and no one locally EVER forgot his call. He became a SK in 2010 and I see the call has been re-assigned now so I won't add the rest.
Nothing daft about it. There are very good reasons some of us prefer the older English/Imperial units of measurement for most things in day to day life but that's not important here. The example is absurd.
Nice strawman, or attempt at a strawman anyway. It didn't work. He never SAID there was no "global standard." He said there are no "proper phonetics as it relates to ham radio." And he was right, and you're arguing against something he didn't even say, or imply for that matter.
It's short for "telephony" and in our case "radio telephony" and dates from the days when the only telephony was AM and that was new. So any voice mode is "phone" by definition.
I get a bur in my bonnet over people at work who refer to time all year round as "standard" time. I make it a point to say "Eastern DAYLIGHT time" when we're on DST, just to make the point. I also get annoyed at posts on social media accusing people of being "posers" and often point out that, "unless you are referring to someone who is literally posing, as for a portrait, the word is spelled 'poseur.'" We all have our pet peeves.
You're just being deliberately absurd. I have no idea what the heck Xochimilco is and have never seen or heard the word before. It is even a word?
