[CQ-Contest] Splqdecripity

[Hanlon, Steve]

>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.

Pete-

many ops had a hard time copying my 3 since it is bracketed by a B and K - seems to get lost in sound shift.  i resorted to saying the number three times in groups of three.

three three three  three three three   three three three

that seemed to be the trick that worked.  i can't give advice on the zeros and the nines, but it works wonders for use in 3 land.

another "trick" i used to get the op to copy the A, lost in the sound shift from K to Q, was to think of a city or country name near the DX station.  if they didn't understand ALPHA or AMERICA, i tried ARMENIA or ATHENS.  that really seemed to work too.

-steve hanlon
KB3KAQ