[CQ-Contest] Difficult callsigns

Georgek5kg at aol.com Georgek5kg at aol.com
Sat Nov 9 07:41:03 EST 2002


In a message dated 11/9/2002 3:43:58 AM Greenwich Standard Time, 
k8cc at comcast.net writes:


> It didn't take long before I came to discover how difficult it was to get a 
> callsign full of "Es" through a 80M CW pileup.  Signal strength was not the 
> 
> issue - the callsign simply had no "inertia" to it.  Sending the call 
> normally simply did not work.  The only thing that worked was "di dah dah, 
> dah dah dah dah dah, dit (pause), dit (pause), dit".  It was humiliating...
> 

Dave,

Interesting story.  Yet, I always felt that W3EEE was a really effective call 
on cw, especially with the way he uses a very short pause after each E.

73, Geo...

George I. Wagner, K5KG
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