[UK-CONTEST] Short Contest Calls.

[Stewart Rolfe]

I used our club scc GW6W in cqww cw last year, and also in arrl dx (cw). I like to mix pc CQing with paddle sending to avoid boredom and found I was working quite a few dupes even from some of the 'A listers' towards the end.


I found afterwards that my call was being misread by some skimmers, and I'm sure this was causing the problem. I found GW6WGW and even W6GW or something similar which elicited calls from Europeans in arrl dx. Apparently short calls like contest calls are far more susceptible to being misinterpreted by the skimmer software when timing isn't 100%.


Hopefully my cw isn't totally rubbish, and I'm sure the call would have been obvious if they'd have actually listened as well as reading their skimmer feed...


73,

Stewart, GW0ETF


PS. Paul GW8IZR explains it in detail at www.greenrover.demon.co.uk/skimmer.html




--- On Fri, 5/10/12, David <g3yyd at btinternet.com> wrote:




> From: David <g3yyd at btinternet.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Short Contest Calls.
> To: "UK-Contest at contesting. com" <UK-Contest at contesting.com>
> Date: Friday, 5 October, 2012, 10:41
> I have used M7T. Big plus in RTTY
> contest over G3YYD. In SSB contests not as big a plus and in
> CW less than SSB.
> 
> Of course if I could get a personal +2 letter call then M7T
> advantage would be marginal for CW and SSB but still a gain
> in RTTY. The big plus being I could use a +2 letter in all
> contests. Especially as a English +2 letter is the same
> length as a regions SCC. But then regions are rarer than
> England calls. Unfortunately do not have the means/influence
> to convince that I should be issued with a +2 letter call.
> 
> May be should not allow +2 letter calls in RSGB contests
> except for those with regional prefixes to even the playing
> field?
> 
> 73 David G3YYD & M7T
> 
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