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Re: [CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter contesting callsigns

To: <k5zd@charter.net>, "'Mike Smith VE9AA'" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>, <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter contesting callsigns
From: "Jon Suehiro" <nn5t@attglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 03:11:50 -0000
List-post: <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sorry like my wimpy signal that needed to repeat the call several times.

I went through the phase --- 'C5?' in many years.  Adding a space 'n^n^5^t'
did not help much.  Now we are having the similar feelings to 1x1.  73 Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest
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k5zd@charter.net
Sent: February 18, 2020 02:08
To: 'Mike Smith VE9AA'; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter contesting callsigns

The 3 letter calls are almost too short!  Especially if they are new and
blend with longer calls.  The short G calls are getting easier, but some of
them still throw me.

A call like M0B seems to be easy.  A call like G3P or M1E always causes me
to have to think.  Did I get the whole call?  Our ability to recognize a
call actually goes up as the call gets longer.

I suspect the guys with the new short calls find that they need to send the
calls twice or people just don't get them.

I am fine with short calls being sent twice.  It is the long calls sent
multiple times that can waste more time.

Randy K5ZD


-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+k5zd=charter.net@contesting.com> On
Behalf Of Mike Smith VE9AA
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2020 4:16 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter contesting callsigns

Why is it.you fellas with 3 and 4 letter contesting callsigns send them
twice? (or more)

I was on 80m Sat night and 40m Sunday night, with huge signals into EU (and
presumably vice versa) and

was running my 4-squares and legal limit, at 38-39wpm, bang, bang, bang,
QSO,. QSO, QSO,.  all was great with the world and the occasional UK 3
letter call or all those other 4-letter calls are sent twice, upsetting the
whole applecart.

 

I mean, doesn't that really negate the whole purpose of having a nice,
short, snappy callsign if you're going to send it twice?

 

You may as well have a 3x3 call if you're going to send it more than once.

 

Inquiring minds,.

 

Mike VE9AA...wishing he had a 3 or 4 letter call.

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB

 

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