[CQ-Contest] Watch your dits this weekend

Henk Remijn PA5KT pa5kt at remijn.net
Tue Nov 24 08:23:14 PST 2009


I search for the mentioned calls in the logs of my cluster.

Following calls were spotted during the WPX CW:
KH6XS
KH7X

And KH7XS of course.

Looks like most errors were by bad copying, not using the cluster!.

Henk PA5KT

Randy Thompson K5ZD schreef:
> I am just finishing the log checking for the WPX CW contest and wanted to
> share some observations that may be helpful for WW CW this coming weekend.
>
> Beware of calls with lots of dots!
>
> Missing a single dit can really change the nature of a call.  H's become 5's
> or S's become H's.  Another problematic combination is V's and 4's or J's
> and 1's.
>
> For example, here are all the ways people copied KH7XS in WPX CW (only one
> of these is correct).
> K57XS
> K5ZHS
> K5ZXI
> K5ZXS
> KH6XS
> KH7HS
> KH7X 
> KH7XB
> KH7XE
> KH7XH
> KH7XI
> KH7XS
> KH8XS
> KS6XS
> KS7XI
> KS7XS
> KS8XI
> KX7XS
>
> (The most common bust was KH6XS followed by KS7XS.)
>   



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