Somewhere, perhaps in Civil Air Patrol some decades ago, I got the impression that one scheme has indeed become pretty standard, and in particular is used by air-traffic control the world over, at least where English is spoken (which is mostly). More recently I've read that it ain't necessarily so. The American police used to have their own scheme, based mostly on given names, but I think they've mostly adopted the US military version too.
I speak under correction. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it. -from "A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life" by William Law (1686-1761) */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of CM Poncelet Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 20:21 able baker charlie dog easy fox --- On 04/10/2021 15:10, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > If the newscaster had been an aviator he couldd have said Alfa Foxtrot Tango. > But an aviator or a mariner wouldn't have needed to. > > I believe he said in defense that it appeared in caps in his script. > But if that came off a teletype everything would have been caps. > > I once recited a serial number to Tech Support using NATO phonetic alphabet. > She understood immediately; no request for clarification. Perhaps she > was a veteran. Why can't local emergency services concur on a phonetic > alphabet? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
