[CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter calls

[Keith Dutson]

That is the offset to snoozer OM0M. 😊

73, Keith

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From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+kdutson=sbcglobal.net at contesting.com> On Behalf Of donovanf at starpower.net
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter calls


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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