Absolutely, Dennis. Field Day brings out the best - "Hairy Elephant", "Flat
Tire" and "Big Fat Turkey" come to mind.
The best phonetic we've come up with for our club call, W9FK, is "French
Kiss", but we discourage its use except when working W2SEX (a call doesn't
need phonetics).
- Tom, K9BTQ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Younker NE6I" <NE6I@cox.net>
To: "reflector cq-contest" <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Best SS exchange yet!
Over the years, I've found that the few stations using creative phonetics
actually stand out in a contest, especially if rules permit working them
only once regardless of band. I am far more likely to remember that I've
already worked N4-Baked-Potato than I am N4-Bravo-Papa. And thus I don't
even need to enter N4BP in my logging software to see if he's a dupe.
--Dennis, NE6I
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maarten van Rossum" <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
To: "K1TTT" <K1TTT@arrl.net>
Cc: "reflector cq-contest" <CQ-Contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Best SS exchange yet!
>I can imagine that it can be very effective if enough people know you by
> those phonetics.
> Just for the record, I didn't day the OM was juvenile, just the way that
> he
> pronounced his call *sounded* juvenile to me.
>
> Come to think of it, I once had a QSO with W1FDY and he pronounced it as
> "Whiskey One Frozen Darn Yankee"
> I still remember it because of the way he pronounced it. So I guess in a
> way
> it does make some sense after all.
>
> That said, it still sounds silly to me...;-)
>
> 73, Maarten
> PD2R
>
> 2010/11/21 K1TTT <K1TTT@arrl.net>
>
>> That's n4-baked-potato, everyone knows who it is just by the baked potato
>> suffix!
>>
>>
>> David Robbins K1TTT
>> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
>> web: http://www.k1ttt.net
>> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Maarten van Rossum [mailto:pd2r.maarten@gmail.com]
>> > Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 18:14
>> > To: Jim Reisert AD1C
>> > Cc: CQcontest Reflector
>> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Best SS exchange yet!
>> >
>> > LOL ;-)
>> >
>> > By the way, Some people get very creative with their call-sign's
>> > phonetics?
>> > I heard some guy refer to his last two letters of his call as "Backed
>> > Potato's" instead of Bravo Papa.
>> > I can't help it but that just sounds really juvenile to me...
>> >
>> > I have read that some people do this frequently but I just don't hear
>> > it
>> > that often on this side of the pond, let alone on HF.
>> >
>> > 73, Maarten van Rossum
>> > PD2R
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 2010/11/21 Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
>> >
>> > > I heard one station on 15m Sunday morning. He sent the following:
>> > >
>> > > "number prec MY CALL check section"
>> > >
>> > > Yes, he actually said the words "MY CALL".
>> > >
>> > > I, State your name.....
>> > >
>> > > 73 - Jim AD1C
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