[CQ-Contest] [Bulk] Best callsign letters

Anthony A. Luscre aluscre at neo.rr.com
Mon Jul 5 18:46:33 PDT 2010


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Bill Coleman wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:08 AM, John Geiger wrote:
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>> 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?
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> "Radio" seems to get through when nothing else will. "Lima" has no voice energy, and is often confused with "Charlie", and "Kilo".
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