Entering oil and gas business recently make me wonder why they call platform name with end A, B, C. They actually Alpha, Bravo, Charlie... and certain area that have 1 mother platform and 4 satellite platform, they add A, B, C, D, and E after each platform name. The mother platform, xxxxx Alpha. The satellite platform, xxxxx Bravo, xxxxx Charlie, xxxxx Delta, and xxxxx Echo.
I c, so what are the rest? So I try ask uncle google for it and found they actually NATO spelling alphabet.. lolcats! This exist because of radio conversation can be fuzzy and hard to hear each other especially on busy radio channel.
| Character | Telephony |
|---|---|
| A | ALPHA |
| B | BRAVO |
| C | CHARLIE |
| D | DELTA |
| E | ECHO |
| F | FOXTROT |
| G | GOLF |
| H | HOTEL |
| I | INDIA |
| J | JULIET |
| K | KILO |
| L | LIMA |
| M | MIKE |
| N | NOVEMBER |
| O | OSCAR |
| P | PAPA |
| Q | QUEBEC |
| R | ROMEO |
| S | SIERRA |
| T | TANGO |
| U | UNIFORM |
| V | VICTOR |
| W | WHISKEY |
| X | X-RAY |
| Y | YANKEE |
| Z | ZULU |
That is all. There is also phonetic alphabet for numbers but not significant different from normal pronunciation.
For further detail you can visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
its because there are letters that sound the same. Such as p and t. While fuzzy radio channels may be a part of it, it was mainly brought about to differentiate between letters that sound similar over remote communication. the words are designed to be very easy to differentiate if said properly. That's why there is also a specific pronunciation to each word
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ReplyDeleteI was amused once when reading the information you have entered. Hopefully with this information could provide benefit to me and other members. thank you.