[CQ-Contest] Splqdecripity

[Pete Smith]

At 07:37 AM 3/10/04 +0000, W3CP wrote:
>Bob, I have a similar problem and it is bad enough to discourage operating
>in fone contests.  I believe the trouble is my severe loss of hearing at the
>higher audio frequencies.  When I ask "please give your callsign slowly" the
>callsign generally becomes readable.  There may be a message here for the
>speach speed artists.


I have pretty decent hearing, so far, and had the same trouble.  There was 
one guy whose "two" was indistinguishable from "zero", and it didn't even 
seem to be speed, but rather a case of not enough emphasis on the "ooo" 
sound.  I think so long as English is used, ops whose English is accented 
need to be aware of this problem, particularly in the case of numbers, 
which are not phoneticized.


73, Pete N4ZR
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