Believe me, a name doesn't have to be *that* unusual, but if it's similar sounding to other names, you're in for a *LOT* of repeats! The first time I entered NAQP SSB, I used my real first name (Aaro
Hey ... "Top Cat" !! George Foreman named ALL his sons George E. Foreman. I just heard him say on the radio that he did it with old age and memory loss in mind. That way he never forgets his sons' na
,,,,,,,,,,,and lets not forget the all the 'Chads' ( 30 or 40 of them from FCG) that occurred in the NAQP several years ago. One fellow was rather adament about not working anyone with that name duri
That's because you didn't use the right phonetics. If you had said "Aaron, as in Elvis Aaron Presley", no one would have needed any repeats....:-) Bud, K2KIR
I really don't understand this fascination with using hard-to-copy names. The idea in a contest is to complete as many QSOs as possible within the allotted time, and the best way to do that is to mak
I could be wrong, but I believe using hard names was born out of a strategy to use "defense" instead of just "offense" in the realm of contesting. Most contest operators use an offensive strategy pri
strategy say, to And the point of the brief analysis in my previous post was to point out that any such "defensive" technique is counter-productive, i.e. over the duration of a contest it can hurt yo
The other point to this that Richard doesn't touch on is this: if you choose a hard name and make it hard to copy, with fills and so on, then you are disadvantaging yourself for every QSO you make. Y