[UK-CONTEST] CQ WW 160M CW

[David G3YYD]

Thanks Fred and Dave for your comments. At the time I was not aware that 
M6T was such an active call. I did work M6T yesterday evening. There is 
also another contester who is very active in some contests TM7T, which 
is even more likely to produce a match in peoples minds.

Overall probably made an error in choosing that particular call. Oh well 
one lives and learns. I have also been reflecting on whether a GnX would 
be even better choice as most serious contesters are G prefix although I 
note M0 activity is on the up as the years progress.

More comments are solicited.

73 David

On 31/01/2011 17:18, Fred Handscombe wrote:
> Hello David
>
> I was very surprised to see you chose M7T when you announced the call 
> here some weeks back.
>
> People are so used to working M 6 T that they will find it hard to be 
> sure it is not really M6T, especially those who rely on SCP databases
>
> I think you will have problems for some time to come, more so when M6T 
> is also active.  Maybe not on RTTY.
>
> I think another less well known, near combination would have been 
> better but it was your choice.
>
> GL
>
> 73 Fred
> A65BD - sometime 10m op at M6T
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David G3YYD" <g3yyd at btinternet.com>
> To: <UK-Contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 6:05 PM
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] CQ WW 160M CW
>
>
>>
>> Due to various other commitments I was only able to do the last couple
>> of hours.
>>
>> One thing I found was using a short contest call, M7T, that about 15% of
>> the people I called could not get their head round a call that is only 3
>> characters long. They felt that letters were missing even after they had
>> copied the M7T perfectly. Lots of M7T? even after a double repeat. I
>> found turning the keyer down to 18 WPM from usual 27 to 30 WPM got the
>> point across - I did this after I had previously sent R 5NN14 in reply
>> to there M7T? 5NNZZ.
>>
>> I note that England is one of very few countries that has a prefix
>> enabling use of a 3 character call. Most countries minimum call length
>> is 4 as per the other UK countries.
>>
>> I am seriously wondering if it is just as "good" to use my normal call
>> rather than an SCC. Or may be I should have gone for a GnX call rather
>> than a MnX call. I would like to know what others have experienced in
>> this regard.
>>
>> I suspect a better alternative for England would be a GnXX call but you
>> need to know the right people as well as being very persuasive to get
>> one of those.
>>
>> I would welcome comments from others experience of using a 3 character
>> or a 4 character call.
>>
>> 73 David G3YYD
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