[CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter calls

[Jim N7JB]

Frank,

My favorite call was 5E5E (used by the late W7EJ) during a CQWW SSB contest some years back-equally rhythmic, phone or CW.  

73, Jim N7JB

> On Feb 20, 2020, at 2:17 PM, donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Doug, 
> 
> 
> My currently active favorite is SE5E 
> 
> 
> My least favorite are the new 1X1 calls like M1X 
> I'm always waiting for more letters... 
> 
> 
> 73 
> Frank 
> W3LPL 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Doug Grant" <dougk1dg at gmail.com> 
> To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com> 
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 8:49:31 PM 
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter calls 
> 
> N3QE said: 
> 
> 
> “Then there was the world's shortest callsign... EE5E... sent at 50 
> WPM. Whoever 
> thought that was good for a contest was nuts.” 
> 
> 
> But W3WN said: 
> 
> 
> “Well Tim, I have to disagree with you on the EE5E call.? I got a big kick 
> out of that, when it was in use.? It certainly stood out, especially after 
> the first time one worked it.” 
> 
> — 
> 
> As co-conspirator on that callsign (with EA5RS), I can attest that half the 
> world thought it was the worst call ever and half thought it was the 
> coolest call ever. 
> 
> 
> However it’s dead and buried now. It turned out that the Skimmers in some 
> multi-multis has issues with intermod products creating random patterns of 
> dits that were interpreted as EE5E on random frequencies. These false spots 
> eventually led most of the clusters to reject all EE5E spots as bogus, 
> resulting in the call never being spotted, even when it was actually on the 
> air. 
> 
> 
> EA5RS decided that it was a disadvantage in contests to never be spotted 
> and has retired the call. 
> 
> 
> Sigh. 
> 
> 
> Doug K1DG 
> 
> 
> p.s. N2NT says EE5E on CW has the same rhythm as the theme song from the 
> movie “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” https://youtu.be/ZTTzcXSLjhI (skip to about
> 27 seconds in) 
> 
> 
> p.p.s. Now good luck getting that song/call out of your head. 
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