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Re: [CQ-Contest] Splqdecripity

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Splqdecripity
From: Jim Smith <jimsmith@shaw.ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:25:42 -0800
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I have tried Fujiyama Osaka on JAs. Generally get a stunned silence. Did get one laugh, though.

73 de Jim Smith VE7FO

Hanlon, Steve wrote:

I think so long as English is used, ops whose English is accented need to be aware of this problem, particularly in the case of numbers, which are not phoneticized.



Pete-


many ops had a hard time copying my 3 since it is bracketed by a B and K - seems to get lost in sound shift. i resorted to saying the number three times in groups of three.

three three three three three three three three three

that seemed to be the trick that worked. i can't give advice on the zeros and the nines, but it works wonders for use in 3 land.

another "trick" i used to get the op to copy the A, lost in the sound shift from K to Q, was to think of a city or country name near the DX station. if they didn't understand ALPHA or AMERICA, i tried ARMENIA or ATHENS. that really seemed to work too.

-steve hanlon
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