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Re: [CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter calls

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter calls
From: Hans Brakob <kzerohb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 04:42:44 +0000
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I have lived with a “dit rich” 4 letter call for 50 years.  I can confirm that 
suffix dits, especially trailing dits, suck in a contest. They simply get lost 
in the noise, as the plethora of KØSB, KØHD, and KØSD busts in my UBN’s attest 
to.

Someone once remarked that a good CW contest callsign should have “high average 
power” in the suffix.  I think “TT” would be the best suffix, but I’d wager 
that N2MM, K1TO, NØAT, and K6NJ suffer far less “my call busted” Q’s than I do.


73, de Hans, KØHB
“Just a Boy and his Radio”™

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