This things happend when the OP don´t use ICAO
And happends too with a lot of EA operators, calling* X* like
"Xilofono"......... the best call is that always use ICAO.
i heard a lot of stations from my own country calling with words that are
really imposible for foreigners and sometimes for me too.
73 to all
2010/4/23 Barry Merrill <barry@mxg.com>
> Watch out for country names like SPAIN which
> will be recorded as an "E" for Espagne by
> spanish speakers; I got hundreds of QSLs
> to KG4CE in the first batch when I was KG4CS
> and quickly discarded Spain (CUB SCOUT worked).
>
> And EI "portable" W5GN is almost always heard
> as EI4W5GN - "slash" works best with Eastern
> Europe, but "stroke" seems to be better heard
> in the British Isles.
>
> Barry, EI/W5GN ex KG4CS
>
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