Hi John
Just my two cents worth:
Don't use Juliet - use Japan.
I would use Germany instead of Golf. Longer (more syllables, but less
confusion)
If I was able to choose "the perfect" call, I would stay away from
double letters. That way, if you "double up" on letters, there is
less confusion. Ie - you want you say "Alpha, Alpha, Alpha, Alpha"
Is that two Alphas, or are you trying to say the same (single) letter
many times under marginal conditions?
I would stay away from the same letter as the first and last letter of
your call. VE3MHV had a heck of a time with his call - lots of his
QSL's went to VE3HM.
S and H are not great in a CW call (my first call was VE3HHS) - NOT
fun on phone/CW.
Last, but not least - if you want ME to pick YOUR call out of a
pileup? Keep your call in MY headphones and in my brain. After a
while, you start to remember calls that you have worked many times
before. Then - in a contest/under marginal conditions, that familiar
call just pops into your head as you have worked the same guy a
hundred times before :-)
FWIW
Tom - VE3CX
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:08 AM, John Geiger <aa5jg@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone done a study (or have ancetodal evidence) about which letters
> (using standard phonetics) get through best on SSB during pileups or
> marginal/weak conditions? For example, I though "j" would be decent letter
> but many people seem to hear "Juliet" as "India". Don't know why they make
> that confusion, but they do. So, which letters are best recognized and less
> confused?
>
> 73s John AA5JG
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