[CQ-Contest] Best callsign letters

[Tom Haavisto]

Hi John

Just my two cents worth:

Don't use Juliet - use Japan.
I would use Germany instead of Golf.  Longer (more syllables, but less
confusion)

If I was able to choose "the perfect" call, I would stay away from
double letters.  That way, if you "double up" on letters, there is
less confusion.  Ie - you want you say "Alpha, Alpha, Alpha, Alpha"
Is that two Alphas, or are you trying to say the same (single) letter
many times under marginal conditions?

I would stay away from the same letter as the first and last letter of
your call.  VE3MHV had a heck of a time with his call - lots of his
QSL's went to VE3HM.

S and H are not great in a CW call (my first call was VE3HHS) - NOT
fun on phone/CW.


Last, but not least - if you want ME to pick YOUR call out of a
pileup?  Keep your call in MY headphones and in my brain.  After a
while, you start to remember calls that you have worked many times
before.  Then - in a contest/under marginal conditions, that familiar
call just pops into your head as you have worked the same guy a
hundred times before :-)


FWIW


Tom - VE3CX



On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:08 AM, John Geiger <aa5jg at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone done a study (or have ancetodal evidence) about which letters (using standard phonetics) get through best on SSB during pileups or marginal/weak conditions?  For example, I though "j" would be decent letter but many people seem to hear "Juliet" as "India".  Don't know why they make that confusion, but they do.  So, which letters are best recognized and less confused?
>
> 73s John AA5JG