<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">... MHz, or 14253,55 kHz. (the , being the european decimal<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">separator).<br></blockquote></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm aware of this. What do folks and/or speech synthesizers *speak* for this? "comma"? "point"?<br></blockquote><br>At least in the germanistic languages German, Nordic (and probably<br>also in english) "komma" is used.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Whilst England is alleged to be in, or part of, Europe -- we do not now nor have we ever used a comma to mark the decimal point (it's Un-British so I paraphrase the Un-American Activities Committee). We use the full stop symbol. As such, in English we say "point" in general use (such as "Fourteen point two-five-two-five"). </div><div><br></div><div>However, there is an international agreement that the spoken English for the decimal point is the word "decimal" -- which gets over all symbolic variances. It's the same agreement that defines the international phonetic alphabet -- the ICAO alphabet; also known (and apparently agreed) as the NATO, ITU, IMO, FAA, ANSI or INTERCO phonetic alphabet. It also says that each digit should be spoken separately -- giving "one four decimal two five two five"</div><div><br></div><div>But as you know, nobody likes international agreements so that would be "Fourteen decimal two-five-two-five", or even "Fourteen decimal two-five point two-five" if you like :-)</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">The attempts to make APRS more accessible for blind radio amateurs are<br>interesting.</span></blockquote><div><br></div>Now that bit I do agree with; it also makes it easier for people driving along too!</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- </div><div>Regards</div><div>Andy, G8TQH</div><div><a href="http://www.rickham.net/">http://www.rickham.net/</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div> </div><br></body></html>