NATO Binary Convert

Instant NATO Binary Convert

Convert text to NATO phonetic alphabet or 8-bit ASCII binary instantly. Swap formats, auto-detect inputs, and share results with one click.

Conversion Chart

Use this table by starting with the Text column, then reading across the row to compare the NATO word, 8-bit binary byte, and Base64 value for the same character or short phrase.

Text NATO Binary Base64
A Alpha 01000001 QQ==
B Bravo 01000010 Qg==
C Charlie 01000011 Qw==
D Delta 01000100 RA==
E Echo 01000101 RQ==
F Foxtrot 01000110 Rg==
G Golf 01000111 Rw==
H Hotel 01001000 SA==
I India 01001001 SQ==
J Juliett 01001010 Sg==
K Kilo 01001011 Sw==
L Lima 01001100 TA==
M Mike 01001101 TQ==
N November 01001110 Tg==
O Oscar 01001111 Tw==
P Papa 01010000 UA==
Q Quebec 01010001 UQ==
R Romeo 01010010 Ug==
S Sierra 01010011 Uw==
T Tango 01010100 VA==
U Uniform 01010101 VQ==
V Victor 01010110 Vg==
W Whiskey 01010111 Vw==
X X-ray 01011000 WA==
Y Yankee 01011001 WQ==
Z Zulu 01011010 Wg==
0 Zero 00110000 MA==
1 One 00110001 MQ==
2 Two 00110010 Mg==
3 Three 00110011 Mw==
4 Four 00110100 NA==
5 Five 00110101 NQ==
6 Six 00110110 Ng==
7 Seven 00110111 Nw==
8 Eight 00111000 OA==
9 Niner 00111001 OQ==
Hello Hotel Echo Lima Lima... 01001000 01100101 01... SGVsbG8=
SOS Sierra Oscar Sierra 01010011 01001111 01... U09T
OK Oscar Kilo 01001111 01001011 T0s=

Understanding the Conversions

NATO Phonetic Alphabet

Each letter is replaced with a standard word, such as A to Alpha and B to Bravo.

Binary

Each character is converted to its 8-bit binary representation based on ASCII values.

Base64

Text is encoded using the 64-character Base64 alphabet for safe transmission and storage.

Use Cases

NATO for voice spelling, binary for digital systems, and Base64 for text-safe data.

Example: Converting "Hello"

Text: Hello
NATO: Hotel Echo Lima Lima Oscar
Binary: 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111
Base64: SGVsbG8=

NATO Alphabet

Use this table by finding a letter, digit, space, or period in the Character column, then read the NATO Word aloud. The Aliases column shows alternate spellings the converter accepts.

Character NATO Word Aliases Example
A Alpha Alfa A as in Alpha
B Bravo — B as in Bravo
C Charlie — C as in Charlie
D Delta — D as in Delta
E Echo — E as in Echo
F Foxtrot — F as in Foxtrot
G Golf — G as in Golf
H Hotel Aitch H as in Hotel
I India — I as in India
J Juliett Juliet J as in Juliett
K Kilo — K as in Kilo
L Lima — L as in Lima
M Mike — M as in Mike
N November — N as in November
O Oscar — O as in Oscar
P Papa — P as in Papa
Q Quebec — Q as in Quebec
R Romeo — R as in Romeo
S Sierra — S as in Sierra
T Tango — T as in Tango
U Uniform — U as in Uniform
V Victor — V as in Victor
W Whiskey Whisky W as in Whiskey
X X-ray Xray X as in X-ray
Y Yankee — Y as in Yankee
Z Zulu — Z as in Zulu
0 Zero — 0 as in Zero
1 One — 1 as in One
2 Two — 2 as in Two
3 Three — 3 as in Three
4 Four — 4 as in Four
5 Five — 5 as in Five
6 Six — 6 as in Six
7 Seven — 7 as in Seven
8 Eight — 8 as in Eight
9 Niner Nine 9 as in Niner
⎵ Space Blank Word separator
. Stop Decimal Decimal point

About the NATO Phonetic Alphabet

The NATO phonetic alphabet is an international standardized phonetic alphabet used especially by military personnel and aviation. Each letter of the alphabet is assigned a codeword to ensure clear communication in voice transmissions and radio communications.

This table includes all 26 letters (A-Z), digits (0-9), and common special characters (space and period). Some words have alternative pronunciations listed as aliases, such as Alfa and Alpha for the letter A.

ASCII to Binary

Use this table by finding a printable character in the Character column. Decimal and hex show the ASCII code; Binary shows the 8-bit byte used when that character is encoded.

Character Decimal Binary Hex Category
⎵ (space) 32 00100000 20 Symbol
! 33 00100001 21 Symbol
" 34 00100010 22 Symbol
# 35 00100011 23 Symbol
$ 36 00100100 24 Symbol
% 37 00100101 25 Symbol
& 38 00100110 26 Symbol
' 39 00100111 27 Symbol
( 40 00101000 28 Symbol
) 41 00101001 29 Symbol
* 42 00101010 2A Symbol
+ 43 00101011 2B Symbol
, 44 00101100 2C Symbol
- 45 00101101 2D Symbol
. 46 00101110 2E Symbol
/ 47 00101111 2F Symbol
0 48 00110000 30 Digit
1 49 00110001 31 Digit
2 50 00110010 32 Digit
3 51 00110011 33 Digit
4 52 00110100 34 Digit
5 53 00110101 35 Digit
6 54 00110110 36 Digit
7 55 00110111 37 Digit
8 56 00111000 38 Digit
9 57 00111001 39 Digit
: 58 00111010 3A Symbol
; 59 00111011 3B Symbol
< 60 00111100 3C Symbol
= 61 00111101 3D Symbol
> 62 00111110 3E Symbol
? 63 00111111 3F Symbol
@ 64 01000000 40 Symbol
A 65 01000001 41 Uppercase
B 66 01000010 42 Uppercase
C 67 01000011 43 Uppercase
D 68 01000100 44 Uppercase
E 69 01000101 45 Uppercase
F 70 01000110 46 Uppercase
G 71 01000111 47 Uppercase
H 72 01001000 48 Uppercase
I 73 01001001 49 Uppercase
J 74 01001010 4A Uppercase
K 75 01001011 4B Uppercase
L 76 01001100 4C Uppercase
M 77 01001101 4D Uppercase
N 78 01001110 4E Uppercase
O 79 01001111 4F Uppercase
P 80 01010000 50 Uppercase
Q 81 01010001 51 Uppercase
R 82 01010010 52 Uppercase
S 83 01010011 53 Uppercase
T 84 01010100 54 Uppercase
U 85 01010101 55 Uppercase
V 86 01010110 56 Uppercase
W 87 01010111 57 Uppercase
X 88 01011000 58 Uppercase
Y 89 01011001 59 Uppercase
Z 90 01011010 5A Uppercase
[ 91 01011011 5B Symbol
\ 92 01011100 5C Symbol
] 93 01011101 5D Symbol
^ 94 01011110 5E Symbol
_ 95 01011111 5F Symbol
` 96 01100000 60 Symbol
a 97 01100001 61 Lowercase
b 98 01100010 62 Lowercase
c 99 01100011 63 Lowercase
d 100 01100100 64 Lowercase
e 101 01100101 65 Lowercase
f 102 01100110 66 Lowercase
g 103 01100111 67 Lowercase
h 104 01101000 68 Lowercase
i 105 01101001 69 Lowercase
j 106 01101010 6A Lowercase
k 107 01101011 6B Lowercase
l 108 01101100 6C Lowercase
m 109 01101101 6D Lowercase
n 110 01101110 6E Lowercase
o 111 01101111 6F Lowercase
p 112 01110000 70 Lowercase
q 113 01110001 71 Lowercase
r 114 01110010 72 Lowercase
s 115 01110011 73 Lowercase
t 116 01110100 74 Lowercase
u 117 01110101 75 Lowercase
v 118 01110110 76 Lowercase
w 119 01110111 77 Lowercase
x 120 01111000 78 Lowercase
y 121 01111001 79 Lowercase
z 122 01111010 7A Lowercase
{ 123 01111011 7B Symbol
| 124 01111100 7C Symbol
} 125 01111101 7D Symbol
~ 126 01111110 7E Symbol

Understanding ASCII Binary Conversion

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit encoding standard for text. Each character is represented by a unique number (0-127), which can be converted to binary.

Example: Letter 'A'

Character: A

Decimal: 65

Binary: 01000001

Hex: 41

When converting text to binary, each character is converted to its 8-bit binary representation, typically shown with spaces between each byte for readability.

Base64

Use this table by matching a Base64 character to its index and 6-bit value. The examples show how short plain-text strings look after encoding; = appears only as end padding.

Index Character 6-Bit Binary
0 A 000000
1 B 000001
2 C 000010
3 D 000011
4 E 000100
5 F 000101
6 G 000110
7 H 000111
8 I 001000
9 J 001001
10 K 001010
11 L 001011
12 M 001100
13 N 001101
14 O 001110
15 P 001111
16 Q 010000
17 R 010001
18 S 010010
19 T 010011
20 U 010100
21 V 010101
22 W 010110
23 X 010111
24 Y 011000
25 Z 011001
26 a 011010
27 b 011011
28 c 011100
29 d 011101
30 e 011110
31 f 011111
32 g 100000
33 h 100001
34 i 100010
35 j 100011
36 k 100100
37 l 100101
38 m 100110
39 n 100111
40 o 101000
41 p 101001
42 q 101010
43 r 101011
44 s 101100
45 t 101101
46 u 101110
47 v 101111
48 w 110000
49 x 110001
50 y 110010
51 z 110011
52 0 110100
53 1 110101
54 2 110110
55 3 110111
56 4 111000
57 5 111001
58 6 111010
59 7 111011
60 8 111100
61 9 111101
62 + 111110
63 / 111111
— = Padding

Common Base64 Encoded Examples

Plain Text Base64 Encoded
Hello SGVsbG8=
Hello World SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=
SOS U09T
Test VGVzdA==
ABC QUJD

About Base64 Encoding

Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme that represents binary data in an ASCII string format. It uses 64 printable characters to encode data, making it safe to transmit binary data over text-based systems.

Key Facts:

  • 64 character alphabet: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, +, /
  • Uses = for padding to ensure output length is multiple of 4
  • URL-safe variant uses - and _ instead of + and /
  • Expands data size by about 33% because 3 bytes become 4 characters

Base64 is commonly used for email attachments, data URLs, authentication tokens, and encoding binary data for storage or transmission over text-based protocols.

FAQ

What is NATO Burrito?

It is a browser-based tool that translates text between plain spelling, NATO phonetics, and binary instantly.

How do I switch between NATO, binary, and text?

Use the format selectors above each panel or the swap button between them to flip directions instantly.

Does the converter store what I type?

No—everything runs locally in your browser and never leaves your device.

Can I use the converter offline?

Yes—after the first load the app keeps working even without a network connection.