[CQ-Contest] [OKDXA] Best callsign letters

[Sean Cavanaugh]

On phone I very often get called Sam. Same problem. People hear part of 
my call and SCP gives them VE5SF. It can be very very hard to get the 
other op to hear the correct call once they've decided they know what it 
is.

Don't seem to have that problem in CW or RTTY tests though.

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Sean - VA5LF

On 04/21/2010 10:08 AM, Peter Laws wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:08, 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?
>
> I have anecdotal evidence that November 5 works OK, but that Uniform
> Whiskey Yankee doesn't.  I usually alternate Yankee with Yokohama and
> that seems to work.  Also, Under Water Yagi seems to work.  :-)
>
> Part of the problem, IMHO, is that folks type N 5 U W into their log
> program and the cheat file comes up with Cliff's call and they think
> that's it,  During a recent SSB NAQP I've even had an op ask me to
> repeat my name and say "is it Cliff, Cliff?".  No, bozo, it's Peter!
> Stop using cheat files!!!