Below are the letters, words and pronunciation for the Radio Communications Phonetic Alphabet.
Using the Phonetic Alphabet helps convey information accurately over Radio Communications. When you are spelling out a name, location, code, registration number, postcode etc, over a noisy or faint radio or phone link, it is easy for letters and numbers to be misheard.
Using the phonetic alphabet to spell out names, locations and so on makes accurately understanding messages a lot easier, because many letters can be easily confused when heard over a crackly radio link (B, C, D, P, T and M, N and F, S, etc).
Letter | Word | Pronunciation |
---|---|---|
A | Alpha | al fah |
B | Bravo | brah voh |
C | Charlie | char lee |
D | Delta | dell tah |
E | Echo | eck ho |
F | Foxtrot | foks trot |
G | Gold | golf |
H | Hotel | hoh tel |
I | India | in dee a |
J | Juliet | jew lee ett |
K | Kilo | key lou |
L | Lima | lee mah |
M | Mike | mike |
N | November | no vem ber |
O | Oscar | oss cah |
P | Papa | pah pah |
Q | Quebec | Kah beck |
R | Romeo | row me oh |
S | Sierra | see air rah |
T | Tango | tang go |
U | Uniform | you nee form |
V | Victor | vik tah |
W | Whiskey | wiss key | X | X-ray | ecks ray |
Y | Yankee | yang key |
Z | Zulu | zoo loo |