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Re: [CQ-Contest] Best callsign letters

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Best callsign letters
From: Doug Smith <dougw9wi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:10:36 -0500
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John Geiger 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?

I can tell you that for reasons completely unknown to me, people (both DX and 
domestic) seem to copy the "I" in my call as "R", whether I use 
phonetics or not.

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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN  EM66
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