[Boatanchors] WAS:Break usage NOW Phonetic Alphabet

[rbethman]

By regulation and Manuals, the change to the current Phonetic Alphabetic 
came into being 1 June 1957.  It carried from the Military to Amateur 
Radio use through MARS.

About the same time is when the CAB, (Civilian Aeronautics Board), now 
the FAA adopted it for Civilian pilots.

Bob - N0DGN

Bob Macklin wrote:
> Something else that changed.
>
> In the 50's and early 60's we use the military phonetic alphabet. Most of us
> were either in the military or had been.
>
> I don't know when the current ham phonetic alphabet came into use.
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa,
> "Real Radios Glow in the Dark"
>   

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Bob Bethman/NØDGN/BC-610/Northern Radio 
SP-600 Manassas, VA - MultiBand Dipoles