[CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter calls

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

Though EE5E had the slight advantage that it was very easy to type: just two keys to find. A lot easier than typing KG5HVO's name (BRYANT), though with practice I'm slowly getting it down pat.  :-)

As for callsign music, after operating as VP2EU in 1982 & 1983, I have particular fondness for the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony #7.


73   -  Jim   K8MR
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Grant <dougk1dg at gmail.com>
To: CQ Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 20, 2020 3:50 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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