Students on all levels of GMDSS course will need to learn the phonetic alphabet prior to their course.
- RYA Short Range Certificate (classroom or online)
- Long Range Certificate
- Restricted Operator Certificate
- General Operator Certificate
PHONETIC ALPHABET
Letter | Word | Pronounced as | Letter | Word | Pronounced as |
A | Alpha | AL Fah | N | November | no VEM ber |
B | Bravo | Brah voh | O | Oscar | OSS cah |
C | Charlie | CHAR lee or SHAR lee | P | Papa | pah pah |
D | Delta | DELL tah | Q | Quebec | keh BECK |
E | Echo | ECK oh | R | Romeo | ROW me oh |
F | Foxtrot | FOKS trot | S | Sierra | see AIR rah |
G | Golf | GOLF | T | Tango | TANG go |
H | Hotel | hoh TELL | U | Uniform | You nee form or OO nee form |
I | India | IN dee ah | V | Victor | VIK tah |
J | Juliet | JEW lee ETT | W | Whiskey | WISS key |
K | Kilo | key loh | X | X-ray | ECKS ray |
L | Lima | lee mahl | Y | Yankee | YANG key |
M | Mike | mike | Z | Zulu | ZOO loo |
PHONETIC NUMBERS
0 | zero |
1 | wun |
2 | too |
3 | tree |
4 | FOW er |
5 | fife |
6 | six |
7 | SEV en |
8 | ait |
9 | NIN er |
Larger numbers should be broken down into single digits except from whole units of a thousand.
31 | tree wun |
247 | too FOWer SEVen |
2188 | too wun ait ait |
600 | six zero zero |
6000 | six thousand |
60000 | six zero thousand |