Hello Dee,
Slight correction on your phonetics.
Should read: Delta Echo Echo November Bravo Figure Two Foxtrot
Could not help but to chime in here. Keep your comments coming!
Still smiling.
Peter, NH6VB
> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:56:36 -0500
> From: morse...@optonline.net
> To: clintbradf...@mac.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT-Fox?
>
> Clint,
> As long as our engineers are sitting down and designing something for us,
> they can call it what they want. I think the term "Fox" is OK in my book.
> I don't see any F only in the naming scheme. (all in jest, Clint)
> Thanks,
> Delta Echo Echo, November Bravo (two) Foxtrot
>
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> Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT-Fox?
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> OK - I'll ask. Why is this satellite not named, "AMSAT-Foxtrot?"
>
> It was about 1956 that the U.S. military did away with "Fox" in lieu of
> "Foxtrot" for its phonetic alphabet. Even the English army did away with
> "Fox"over 50 years ago.
>
> The ITU and militaries cite the sixth letter of the phonetic alphabet as
> "Foxtrot." Whose phonetic alphabet do we use to name AMSAT satellites?
>
> Clint Bradford
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