[RTTY] Callsign confusion (Eh-Eee Who?)

[Mike]

Welcome to the call confusion club Donald.

George, K4GM, lives ~10 miles from me and is getting active in RTTY 
contesting.  During several recent contests, including the WPX, 
stations answer my CQ or my S&P call with K4GM or at least that is 
what's printed on my screen.  Most of the time I will send my call a 
couple of times at the end of my message and hope the other station 
realizes it is K4GMH rather than K4GM.  Most stations acknowledge my 
call, but others don't.  So don't know how many QSO will be lost due 
to the incorrect call being logged by the other station.

Unfortunately, the same holds true for George.  He has told me a 
couple of times how stations come back to him as K4GMH.  Maybe it 
will be a "wash" in the scoring - he'll get mine and I'll get his.....

Probably the biggest reason for the call confusion is too much 
reliance on Super Check Partial as K4GM comes up first. Should there 
be a misprint on the "H" in my call his will be the only one 
displayed (haven't heard any other K4GM..... in a RTTY contest - 
yet).  Although that isn't what was copied, SCP just says K4GM is 
good enough.

Oh well, maybe I should vanity the call I had until 1965 as it is 
still open - W9WQQ
At 12:45 PM 2/13/2007, dkerns at cruzio.com wrote:
>For what it is worth...
>
>There are now two of us AE6R* callsigns as active RTTY contesters.
>
>Craig is AE6RR (Roger Rabbit).
>I am Donald, AE6RF (Red Fox).
>
>To make matters worse, our operating hours are about the same. We 
>normally get
>tangled back-to-back a couple of times during a contest. We attempt not to do
>that as to avoid confusion... but... it happens. (For instance a certain
>Central American multiplier that I REALLY needed... And Hawaii during
>Sweepstakes... grumble...)
>
>With luck, now that people know, we'll see a few fewer B4s...
>
>73 de Donald
>AE6RF
>
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         73,
         Mike, K4GMH