[CQ-Contest] Best callsign letters

[Idle-Tyme]

When we first in the club decided to go for a vanity call to aid of 
course in contesting. We had to get rid of the old call it was 
terrible.! KC9OMQ YUK! can it get much longer? and phonetics?  Yikes!

Anyway we opted to get a better vanity call and went the usual route of 
the list in order of preference etc.

And at the top of out list we actually got! W9ET

We thought awesome  Fast on phone!  and on CW  for a 9 land call,  can't 
get too much shorter!  But actually on CW it slowed down a bit. We on  
contest programs had to insert a space between the 9 and the E  a LOT of 
people would miss the "E"  so we'd get answered with W9T or even better 
W9A so when sending this call we had to resort to sending it like this
W9 E T

     W9 [space] E [space] T  lost a bunch of speed i guess,  but still a 
cool call.

Joe WB9SBD
Driftless Zone Contesters W9ET

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On 4/22/2010 7:01 AM, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
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> Tom Haavisto wrote:
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>> 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)
>>
>>      
> This is exactly what should NOT occur, but it has and has resulted in
> the confusion we have today. There is a standard set of phonetics that
> has been in place for as long as I can remember (at least 1960's) and if
> everyone stuck to one standard set then there would not be the problems
> we have today. I think they were developed by the military. Message
> handlers strictly use one standard set them for a reason.
>
> On CW any callsign with E, I, S, H or 5 is a problem. Take the
> following: 5H5/JH1SHV. That is a fistfull and I remember a CW contest
> where there was someone using a call from 5H very similar to that.
>
> Mike, W1NR
>
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