Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 02:27 AM 9/12/2005 -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
jdd sur free wrote:
Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:04:40 +0200 Anders Johansson
wrote: I thought it was zebra, or is that just the armed forces? Allright, here we go again:
The correct _phonetic_ for "z" is unquestionably "zulu."
When you hear a ham operator with a "z" in his call on an FM 2-meter repeater, he will virtually always say "zed." When you hear a ham operator half-way around the world on 20 meters SSB*, he will virtually always say "zulu." Clear?
My call is VE3ZU, which I've had for over 20 years. I have never used, nor heard, to my recollection, "zed" used as a phonetic, even though that's the normal way to pronounce "z" in Canada. I have always used "zulu".