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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: reading hexadecimal out loud, etc
Message-ID: <176@splut.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 12:01:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: splut.176
Posted: Tue Oct 13 12:01:51 1987
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Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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Summary: ICAO phonetics confuse Big Iron types, though...

In article <857@ektools.UUCP>, john@ektools.UUCP (John H. Hall) writes:
> In article <5486@utcsri.UUCP> greg@utcsri.UUCP (Gregory Smith) writes:
> >Ever wonder why we have such good names for the digits and such lousy ones
> >for the letters? B,C,D,E,G,P,T,V,Z in particular.
> 
> True, that's why NATO, the ICAO, and others have better names for them:
> BRAVO, CHARLIE, DELTA, ECHO, GOLF, PAPA, TANGO, VICTOR, ZULU.

I have even tried using the ICAO phonetic set while on the phone with the
good folks at the IBM Support Center. They just get confused.

Since I've been a ham for 16 years, and a systems programmer for 6, I'll
stick with the ICAO set - except for the letters A-F, and then only on the
phone with IBM.

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