[UK-CONTEST] Call sign Dyslexia

[Jiri Culak]

I am usually being called back by someone who never heard me before as:
M0XTY or M0ITV or station with "MIKE KILO TANGO YANKEE" 

I do understand it is difficult sometimes to copy, specially if
operators are foreign and tired.


PS: I heard nice QSO while S&P... BIIIG US station asking:
"yeah, the station with zero and fox alpha lima ??"

"Colin is replying...."

"oh... MU0FAL.... I should have know that, shouldn't I hihi"

That proves that humans do make mistakes...and we all do them :)




-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave H
Sent: 27 October 2008 15:50
To: UK-Contest at contesting.com
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Call sign Dyslexia

Hi

I'm always getting asked if I'm G4CXR instead of my G0CER callsign  - I
don't have anything other than stock MH31 Yeasu that came with the '897d
I'm
trying to replace it with an MD100 or something but not got one yet,
maybe
at Llandudno, which should improve things a bit..

I find my call takes time for the other persons brain to process - if I
say
the whole call in one go there is a perceivable gap as I imagine they
hear
it and then undersand it and say it back(or maybe just type it!).

I think that there is a certain amount of operator tiredness as time
goes on
- by Sunday on most contests you can hear it in the voice and certainly
they
make lots more mistakes and often correct but wrong way around like
REC.
The Europeans and Russians get my call correctly and exact almost
whatever
the condx.  In 70s SWL days we logged for the club contests station and
stayed up all weekend - by sunday night I hadn't a clue where we were or
why
we were there being so tired.

Dave
G0CER
(also G6VSG)
http://www.eQSL.cc/Member.cfm?G0CER
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