[CQ-Contest] Phonetics for long call signs

[Rob Van Geen]

I was once called by Knickerbocker Djibouti 5 Mnemonic Ypsilanti Xylophone.

Copied it perfectly the first time! ;-)


On Wednesday, February 5, 2014, Dave Edmonds <dave at pkministrywebs.com>
wrote:

> Great comments Charles and Jim....
>
> Thanks
>
> from
> Washington November Four Atlantic Frederick Portugal
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Jim Smith <jimsmith at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Once in the Florida QSO Party I used Volusia Escambia 7 Flagler Osceola.
> >
> > Surely they would recognize their own County names!  Got a lot of puzzled
> > silences followed by laughter.
> >
> > 73, Jim VE7FO
> >
> > On 2014-02-04 04:10, Charles Harpole wrote:
> >
> >> Ideas
> >> 1.  for quick break in, I send Hotel Sugar Zero.  This alerts the op
> >> unaccustomed to hearing from Zone 26 where I am and that maybe I am a
> >> needed multiplier.  This is only useful for a prefix like mine.
> >> 2.  "Hotel Sugar" is the phonetic often associated with HS, Thailand, by
> >> common use like "Sugar Poppa" for Poland and so on.  It is irritating
> not
> >> to receive the FULL CALL, but often ops do not leave enough time to
> give a
> >> six unit call sign.
> >> 3.  I have been testing effective phonetics for intelligibility for
> >> several
> >> years and my results are not fast but are very effective and reduce
> >> requests for repeats;  better for pile ups than contests, maybe.  The
> >> results are based on (a) having two equal and stressed syllables, (b)
> >> using
> >> widely known place names in use around the world, especially in English
> >> language TV broadcasts, and (c) avoids using equivocal names like
> >> Greece/Hellas or Spain/Espana.  It also avoids the problem exemplified
> in
> >> French where the "H" is aspirated, with "Hotel" coming out " 'otel."   I
> >> always smile at French speakers using 'otel for an H phonetic.
> >>
> >> America (likely the most well known place name in the world)
> >> Boston (two hard syllables, a well known place name with this spelling
> >> standard).
> >> Canada (same as Boston).
> >> Denmark (same as Boston).
> >> England (SAB... same as Boston).
> >> Florida (SAB)
> >> Germany (mostly ok, but not Deutschland, a factor, but at least not Golf
> >> or
> >> Gulf and
> >>         Guatemala is a nice alternative).
> >> Honolulu (really difficult to mistake this one).
> >> Italy (pronounced with hard "it" at the start; "IT TA LEE."  not
> "itly").
> >> Japan (SAB).
> >> Kentucky (SAB and remember the fried chicken now everywhere).
> >> London (SAB).
> >> Mexico (SAB, but said like English, not Mexican speaker).
> >> Norway (SAB, but November is good).
> >> Ontario (SAB, amazing works every time even if you do not know Canada
> >> towns).
> >> Pacific (the name of the largest ocean, for gosh sakes, but gives some
> ops
> >> trouble).
> >> Queen or Quebec (a difficult one made worse because Quebec is pronounced
> >> Keybeck in French).
> >> Radio (if a ham does not know "radio" what can I say?).
> >> Santiago (a killer ap;  just cuts through great).
> >> Tokyo (SAB).
> >> United (as in United States;  please not "uniform").
> >> Victoria (extends the word Victor, but it still has weaker second
> >> syllable).
> >> Washington (use it if you want to be heard;  I know it is long).
> >> X-Ray (desperation choice).
> >> Yokohama (like Santiago and Washington;  it just works).
> >> Zanzibar (please, not "Zulu" which dies in the QRM).
> >>
> >> Also, purse your lips to say TWO, put lots of tongue on your upper front
> >> teeth for Three, upper teeth on lower lip for Four, wide smile for Five,
> >> try Niner for the old ops.  Count out your number in real trouble and
> do a
> >> count-backwards to get to ZERO.
> >>
> >> Now, I can hear you guys.......  73, Honolulu Santiago ZERO Zanzibar
> >> Canada
> >> Washington.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 6:06 PM, <jpescatore at aol.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Dave - as someone who operated with a looong callsign for many years
> >>> (WB2EKK), just use phonetics for your suffix and not your prefix.
> >>>
> >>> That won't change anything when someone has an SO2R auto CQ going on a
> >>> frequency they are not actively listening to, but it will reduce the
> time
> >>> it takes to get you--
> Dave Edmonds
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