[CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter calls

[John Geiger]

I always thought that EU would be a great suffix to have.  When the
DXpedition is calling CQ EU, I could still call them!

73 John W5TD

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:15 PM K8MR via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> 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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