[CQ-Contest] ARRL DX Log Checking

[Anthony Luscre K8ZT]

Lyndon you might want to check out my article *Choosing Your Ideal 
Vanity Call Sign *http://www.qsl.net/k8zt/vanity_callsign.htm and 
accompanying spreadsheet

Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Tree wrote:
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>>However - the good thing about the current process is that ALL of the logs
>>are subjected to the same process.  We aren't looking at one log and throwing
>>out 9 QSOs, without doing the same thing to the competiting logs and making
>>the same dumb mistake.  Also, the same limitaitons that prevent throwing out
>>more contacts are applied to the other logs as well.
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>But there is an underlying presumption here that all callsigns have an
>equal likelyhood of being "busted" when it's well known that this isn't
>the case. Certain symbol combinations have a higher chance of causing
>confusion (and thus being mis-copied) than others. Something that would
>make for interesting research is an analysis of the busted calls to
>generate a list showing the probability of copying error for each of the
>two and three symbol group combinations.
>
>I will be moving soon, and will have the chance of getting my initials for
>my new call V[AE][0-9]LN, however I've decided not to do that. Having that
>'L' after the digit results in too much similarity in the symbols for my
>liking (I'm thinking primarily CW here). I have another suffix combination
>in mind that creates much more contrast in the last three symbols of the
>call, while still being relatively quick to rattle off (in morse, or
>phonetically).
>
>
>--lyndon
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