11 Sep
2005
11 Sep
'05
09:28
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <robin1.listas@tiscali.es> [09-11-05 07:45]:
Wasn't it "zulu"? International spelling code, also aviation code. Mmm, not too international, it lacks words for special letters... ç, ñ, ü...
No, zulu was for GMT, international time standard. Zed was used by hams to denote the letter z, just as charlie indicates the letter c.
Well, even though I've had my licence for over 33 years, I've never heard of "zed" being used as a phonetic. Hams and others are supposed to use the ICAO phonetics. http://www.icao.int/icao/en/trivia/alphabet.htm http://www.ac6v.com/dxphonetics.htm