After some pondering, I’ve decided to use NN4GG one more time. I’ve run with it twice before.

I originally picked it because NN4 was fairly rare (it’s less so now) and because most people would know it was me.

That latter part was a big mistake. Most people did know it was me, and asked for a repeat. It would be better to have a call not at all like my own – as Lee pointed out, there is a significant confusion factor. I agree with John as well, most of the big stations just run and run – the contest tends to be a rate fest. With the modest antennas here I do a fair amount of S&P. The second radio is almost all S&P, although I will go to dueling CQs near the end of the contest. In S&P the NN4 call is of no help, although I get a lot of “thanks for the mult” coming back.

The “Woodstock Contest Club” may need a new call sign in the future… I would like to use up the 1,000 NN4GG QSL cards sitting here. I get a very high QSL request rate for the NN4 call. More people seem to collect prefix QSLs than I would have guessed.

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