[CQ-Contest] Best callsign letters

[John Geiger]

How does a CW suffix work, for those who have had a call like that or worked stations with it?  It seems that CW would definitely stand out on CW and has a nice code rhythm,  and Charlie Whiskey seems pretty good on phone.  Charlie Whiskey doesn't sound much like the phonetics for other letters, like the Alpha/Delta or Papa/Bravo confusions.
 
73s John AA5JG



--- On Thu, 4/22/10, Rex Lint <rex at lint.mv.com> wrote:

> From: Rex Lint <rex at lint.mv.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Best callsign letters
> To: "'Mike McCarthy, W1NR'" <lists at w1nr.net>
> Cc: dx-is at yahoogroups.com, cq-contest at contesting.com, okdxa at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 5:42 PM
> Mike,
> 
> I found that any call starting "JULIET THREE" worked pretty
> well... 
> 
>     -Rex-
> 
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> On Behalf Of Mike McCarthy, W1NR
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:02 AM
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Best callsign letters
> 
> Tom Haavisto wrote:
> > 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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