[SECC] Why can folks get my call right?

[Dave Edmonds]

Hi Bill

I have a tough callsign on phone. When i fibally get to my suffix and say
‘alpha’ 9/10 times stations respond with ‘delta fox papa’. I use ‘America’
for A instead of alpha. Everyone also leaves the whiskey off of the front
of my call. WN4AFP

73
Dave

On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:27 PM Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net> wrote:

> One thing I am going to do. I’m going to rig up a way so I can record
> snippets of audio from a second receiver, then adjust my transmitter for
> the best sounding audio.
>
> The K3 has a TX equalizer, and I’m told this can help make the audio much
> clearer.
>
> The K2 has no such facility, but the Yamaha CM500 headset I was using
> could be overdriving the microphone circuits a bit. (The K2 has little in
> the way of mic adjustments) I need to rig an attenuator for this headset.
>
> > On Nov 30, 2020, at 9:37 PM, Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> > A new discussion topic. A couple of weeks ago, I handed out a few
> contacts in the SS Phone. I was in Fulton county with crappy antennas, so I
> didn’t expect much.
> >
> > But what drives me crazy is that on phone, people don’t appear to be
> able to copy my callsign.
> >
> > I generally use Alpha Alpha Four London Radio, or perhaps Lima Radio.
> Sometimes it is America America Four, especially if it Europeans who want
> to put me in Germany (Delta Alpha Four), the Netherlands (Papa Alpha Four),
> or perhaps Turkey (Tango Alpha Four)…. But, hey, this was SS, so not so
> much of a problem.
> >
> > Other than the Europeans, most folks get my prefix right much of the
> time.
> >
> > Many times, however, it’s the suffix they struggle with.
> >
> > I can tell the guys using Super-Check Partial, they will go “Alpha Alpha
> Four Charlie?”— because if type in AA4, SCP will suggest AA4C. Like, what I
> just said was nothing like “Charlie”….
> >
> > But, most of the time they have problems, it’s the “L”. They’ll pick up
> “Radio”. So I’ll hear “Alpha Alpha Four something Radio try again.”
> >
> > I’ll give my call a couple of times, or maybe a half dozen before they
> will finally put it together. Then — here’s the weird part. I’d given them
> the whole SS exchange: “Whiskey One Yankee Mike 143 Alpha AA4LR 75 Georgia”
> and bam — they’d get it all in the first go, no repeats.
> >
> > Why is that? Why do they get so stuck on one letter of my call, but they
> can swallow the whole SS exchange in one go?
> >
> >
> > Drives me nuts.
> >
> > Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
> > Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com
> > Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> >            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
> >
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> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
> Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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Dave Edmonds
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