Originally Posted by
Discorde
On a similar topic, another 'waste of bandwidth' is the superfluous 'one' when saying VHF frequencies, and possibly the 'decimal' too, especially since the cumbersome 8.33 frequencies added extra digits. Example of simplified RT:
'Call Stansted Radar two zero six two five.'
Military aircraft use both VHF and UHF. Thus any direction to a VHF frequency between 122.5 and 137.0 with a dropped fist digit could be confused with a UHF 225-370 frequency.