[CQ-Contest] Oceania contest lessons

[Charles Harpole]

Things I have learned, again, this time working people in triangle area
from Singapore to Palau to Timor and humbly and apologetically offer advice
to operators in that area.........

-Learn more radio English.
-Practice saying your call sign in clear English, not so fast, and use
clear phonetics*.
-Learn alternative words for your call in other phonetics.
-Repeat your info at least twice all the time.
-Give your whole call sign, especially the prefix for yagis to be turned to
you.

​Thank you very much.  Help upcoming DX contest sponsored in that area (in
January?).

*Do not use GULF, GOLF, ALPHA, BRAVO, ​DELTA, ECHO, HOTEL, KILO, LIMA, and
other bad ones.

Use AMERICA, BOSTON, CANADA/CHARLIE, DENMARK, ENGLAND, FLORIDA, GERMANY,
HONOLULU, ITALY, JAPAN, KENTUCKY, LONDON, MEXICO, NORWAY, ONTARIO, PAPA,
QUEEN, RADIO, SANTIAGO, TOKYO, UNITED, VICTORIA, WASHINGTON, X-RAY,
YOKOHAMA, ZANZIBAR.

​I have spent years testing these words with non-native English speakers
and THEY WORK first time.  They are based on common PLACE names featured in
the news media in most languages​, PORTUGAL, QUEBEC excepted.

Thanks, 73
Charly, HS0ZCW
​   HONOLULU SANTIAGO ZERO ZANZIBAR CANADA WASHINGTON​


Better to be heard long *once* than not heard shorter three times.