[CQ-Contest] Can a call be too short?

[Mike Ritz, W7VO]

John; 

The one thing I have heard is that you generally do not want a call that ends in a dit, such as the letters B, I, S, H, E, G, etc. That dit often gets "lost in translation". 

Mike, W7VO 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <nss at mwt.net> 
To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 8:08:37 AM 
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Can a call be too short? 

I know when we got the call we were extremely excited, W9ET. but I 
Know it works and it works good, but when sending it we end up having 
to send it with some extra spaces in it, like W9 E T with a extra 
space after the 9 and the E otherwise we do indeed get a lot of repeat 
Requests, 

Joe WB9SBD 

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On 2/15/2012 9:48 AM, John Geiger wrote: 
> I am helping with some research about ideal calls in terms of DXing and contesting, and was rereading some of the old posts about ideal letters in a callsign. I wonder if some combinations can be too short for CW? Do the single character letters like E and T tend to get lost in pileups and require repeats a lot? Would a suffix like EET or TET be problematic? Or does it help that they are shorter to send? 
> 
> 73s John AA5JG 
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