The best joke anyone ever played on me was
EI5ISH sent about 45 WPM. That was about 20 years ago.
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> On Feb 21, 2020, at 1:36 AM, S57AD <mirko.s57ad@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> S55HH is a bit longish...
>
> 73, Mirko, S57AD
>
> V V pet., 21. feb. 2020 ob 04:33 je oseba Jim N7JB <n7jb@comcast.net>
> napisala:
>
>> Frank,
>>
>> My favorite call was 5E5E (used by the late W7EJ) during a CQWW SSB
>> contest some years back-equally rhythmic, phone or CW.
>>
>> 73, Jim N7JB
>>
>>> On Feb 20, 2020, at 2:17 PM, donovanf@starpower.net wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Doug,
>>>
>>>
>>> My currently active favorite is SE5E
>>>
>>>
>>> My least favorite are the new 1X1 calls like M1X
>>> I'm always waiting for more letters...
>>>
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Frank
>>> W3LPL
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>> From: "Doug Grant" <dougk1dg@gmail.com>
>>> To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 8:49:31 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 3 and 4 letter calls
>>>
>>> N3QE said:
>>>
>>>
>>> “Then there was the world's shortest callsign... EE5E... sent at 50
>>> WPM. Whoever
>>> thought that was good for a contest was nuts.”
>>>
>>>
>>> But W3WN said:
>>>
>>>
>>> “Well Tim, I have to disagree with you on the EE5E call.? I got a big
>> kick
>>> out of that, when it was in use.? It certainly stood out, especially
>> after
>>> the first time one worked it.”
>>>
>>> —
>>>
>>> As co-conspirator on that callsign (with EA5RS), I can attest that half
>> the
>>> world thought it was the worst call ever and half thought it was the
>>> coolest call ever.
>>>
>>>
>>> However it’s dead and buried now. It turned out that the Skimmers in
>> some
>>> multi-multis has issues with intermod products creating random patterns
>> of
>>> dits that were interpreted as EE5E on random frequencies. These false
>> spots
>>> eventually led most of the clusters to reject all EE5E spots as bogus,
>>> resulting in the call never being spotted, even when it was actually on
>> the
>>> air.
>>>
>>>
>>> EA5RS decided that it was a disadvantage in contests to never be spotted
>>> and has retired the call.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sigh.
>>>
>>>
>>> Doug K1DG
>>>
>>>
>>> p.s. N2NT says EE5E on CW has the same rhythm as the theme song from the
>>> movie “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” https://youtu.be/ZTTzcXSLjhI (skip to
>> about
>>> 27 seconds in)
>>>
>>>
>>> p.p.s. Now good luck getting that song/call out of your head.
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