sounds like a really long vanity plate being called into dispatch to me :)
although sometimes the guys are "creative" with the phonetics

Rebecca - your message, above, would look like:

tc>.phonetic

phonetic.tc - tct - Sunday, January 17, 2010

Enter text to translate.

sounds like a really long vanity plate being called into dispatch to me :)

Sierra Oscar Uniform November Delta Sierra Lima India Kilo Echo Alfa
Romeo Echo Alfa Lima Lima Yankee Lima Oscar November Golf Victor Alfa
November India Tango Yankee Papa Lima Alfa Tango Echo Bravo Echo India
November Golf Charlie Alfa Lima Lima Echo Delta India November Tango
Oscar Delta India Sierra Papa Alfa Tango Charlie Hotel Tango Oscar Mike
Echo : )

tc>.phonetic

phonetic.tc - tct - Sunday, January 17, 2010

Enter text to translate.

although sometimes the guys are "creative" with the phonetics

Alfa Lima Tango Hotel Oscar Uniform Golf Hotel Sierra Oscar Mike Echo
Tango India Mike Echo Sierra Tango Hotel Echo Golf Uniform Yankee Sierra
Alfa Romeo Echo " Charlie Romeo Echo Alfa Tango India Victor Echo "
Whiskey India Tango Hotel Tango Hotel Echo Papa Hotel Oscar November
Echo Tango India Charlie Sierra

tc>

The idea is you convert each letter in your message into a corresponding
word. e.g. s goes to Sierra, o goes to Oscar etc.

I think Linda knows this phonetic alphabet by heart. My wife sort of
does too. She thinks it all sounds cool.

I don't know it but I wrote this computer program to do it for me.