[CQ-Contest] Best callsign letters

[hank.k8dd]

And when I use Del-Ta Del-Ta for phonetics I get a lot of Alpha Delta's from
DX stations.
When they realize it's "DD", they come back with Denmark Denmark.
But If I use Denmark Denmark ..... they don't hear me.

Hank    K8DD



On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Doug Smith <dougw9wi at gmail.com> wrote:

> John Geiger 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?
>
> I can tell you that for reasons completely unknown to me, people (both DX
> and domestic) seem to copy the "I" in my call as "R", whether I use
> phonetics or not.
>
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>
> Doug Smith W9WI
> Pleasant View, TN  EM66
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