Definitely a silly thing for contest QSOs, but:
Years ago I had a ragchew SSB contact where the guy wanted to know what my dial
freq was because he always liked to hear what someone really sounded like. I
explained to him that with the limited bandwidth we use on SSB in our
microphones and radios, no one sounds like they do in real life anyway. If he
wanted something closer to what ops sounded like IRL, he could go to 3885 and
join the HiFi AMers.
The first time you talk to one of your kids on the telephone, they don't even
recognize you - the identifying features of you don't get through that limited
bandwidth. The phonemes for intelligibility do, but not the facets for speaker
identification.
Though, there are some speech patterns that are so unique, they stand out: Fred
K3ZO calling CQ in a contest was identifiable even if you listed through a CW
filter...
73 John K3TN
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