I recently received a care package from the XYL containing recent issues of my favorite amateur radio magazines: WorldRadio, CQ, QST, as well as the FISTS newsletter. One of the QST column’s mentioned ON4WW’s website and his tips for good amateur radio operating practices. I’d like to highlight them – they make great sense and if everyone observed them, would make our quality radio time just that much more enjoyable.<\/p>\n
From: http:\/\/www.on4ww.be\/OperatingPracticeEnglish.html<\/p>\n
1. HAM LANGUAGE
\nKnow the ‘Ham Language’. Get acquainted with the correct Amateur Radio Language. Don’t say ‘Radio four’, but ‘readibility four’. Master the phonetic alphabet, CW abbreviations, the Q code and the number code (73\/88) as if they were a second mother language before getting on the air.
\nAlways use the phonetic alphabet in a correct manner: A is Alfa, and not Alabama.<\/p>\n
AD7MI: it always throws me when someone does not use the standard phonetic alphabet. But I will admit, with some DX stations where I have a hard time understanding their pronunciation, a substitution in the phonetic alphabet makes sense. I know the basic Q codes, but do need to brush up a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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