Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?

[<wigi@kl0r.com>]

Of course, The Bahamas technically don't have a number in their prefix the way 
amateurs think of numbers in a callsign. But they do have an A...

73, Wigi, KL0R

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Michael Ritz
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2021 9:06 AM
To: Bernie via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?

One on this last weekend was SE5E. Try that with a weak signal and polar 
flutter to the West Coast...

73;
Mike
W7VO


> On 05/31/2021 2:14 AM Bernie via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> One I won’t forget (and I know it was a pirate) was EI5ISH sent around 40 
> WPM. I must admit I did not get it the first time it was sent. 
> 
> Bernie McClenny, W3UR
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> On May 31, 2021, at 3:13 AM, Don Butler <n5lz@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> The call that I will never forget was 6E5EBE .... not even sure if it 
> was it was used in WPX or CQWW contest .... it goes back to the 1980s 
> or early 1990s ....  those guys probably still hold the record for 
> "most dits transmitted during a single weekend"
> 
> Don N5LZ
> 
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> On Behalf Of Randy Thompson
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 12:17 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> 
> Not sure about weird or unusual, but a QSO that has stuck in my mind 
> from many years ago was working A35NN in and ARRL DX CW contest.  His 
> exchange was 5NN NN.  I remember it took me a few QSOs listening to 
> figure it all out!
> 
> Randy K5ZD
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+k5zd=outlook.com@contesting.com> 
> On Behalf Of AB1J via CQ-Contest
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2021 10:25 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
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> 
> 
> What's the most unusual or weird prefix you have ever worked?
> 
> GL in the contest.
> 
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Thompson <k5zd@outlook.com>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Fri, May 28, 2021 2:13 am
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] What is a good prefix for the WPX Contest?
> 
> One of the fun things about the WPX contest is the number of multipliers. 
> Every new prefix worked helps build the score. Ray NM2O has looked at 
> the TI7W log from last year and made a list of the USA prefixes worked.
> 
> See
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcqwpx
> .com%2 
> Fblog%2Fsome-wpx-statistics%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7C31a1860c46dd429fb
> 0d108d 
> 92181bbe1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637577663350606
> 041%7C 
> Unknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1h
> aWwiLC 
> JXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=byZUTyFhQsv%2BxHrxAT4JMvhVU8%2BTiB1Z8Dw%
> 2BZMJC
> FZ4%3D&amp;reserved=0 for details.
> 
> Want to be rare this weekend?  Find a prefix that is not usually 
> active and put it on the air!
> 
> 
> Randy K5ZD
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