On 8/15/18 2:35 PM, Brian Milburn - K6BPM via SBARC-list wrote:
*NORFOLK, Va.* – Mitch Eversdale blames it on “Three Lovely Ladies.” Those are the phonetics a ham in Michigan used when talking to a station with a callsign suffix of “TLL.” And it was the last straw for the long-time ham radio operator.
I quit“It happens all the time and I’m sick of it. Just the other day, I was tuning around 40m and someone made ‘WB’ into ‘Wild Bill,’” said Eversdale.
A retired Navy radio operator, Eversdale admits he’s a “hardcore traditional man” when it comes to phonetics.
Here you go.
A – Aye B – Bdellium C – Czar D – Djinn E - Eye F - Fnese G - Gnome H – Hour I – Igor J – Junta K - Knot L – Llama M – Mnemonic N – Nguyen O – Oedipus P – Pneumatic Q – Quran R – Rhotic S – Sea T – Tsar U - Urn V - Vizard W – Wrong X - Xylophone Y - You Z - Zenzizenzizenzic