[CQ-Contest] dit dit dit dit
Zoltan Szoke
ha5pp at yahoo.com
Mon May 13 22:26:29 EDT 2002
Hi,
More...
K0HB here on my PC is KRHB ;>)
73
Zoli
HA5PP
--- KØHB <k0hb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Back in the 70's I thought it was real cool to have
> a call sign with my initials
> in the suffix.
>
> Since then I have been increasingly concerned that I
> have a horrible call for CW
> contests, due to the large number of dits in the
> suffix.
>
> Just examined my LCR for last November ARRL SS
> contest. I found that 28
> stations busted my callsign in their log, and in
> _EVERY_ case they dropped one
> or more 'dits', getting calls like K0SB, K0HD, or
> K0SD. Since I use CT to key
> my transmitter, the busts can't be attributed to
> sending errors.
>
> Moral of the story? Get a call with a lack of dits
> in the suffix.
> Unfortunately, all the zero-district calls with
> suffixes like TT, MM, OO, TO,
> OT, TM, MT, MO are already taken!
>
> (©¿©) 73, de Hans, K0HB
> SOC # 291
> http://www.qsl.net/soc/
>
>
>
>
>
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