Guess I'll weigh in with my 2 cents. When I use standard ITU phonetics Oscar
quite often becomes Alpha. I have tried the old trick of recording myself
and then listening to see if I would make the same mistake I alos find that
quite often when working DX it is a problem for them to know what letter is
being given when you use the ITU phonetics. But, if you use country names
that problem is alleviated to a great degree.
I remember a good friend was teach a ham class and was discussing
phonetics. He said he made a contact once and the other ham gave he a 59+20
signal report with excellent audio. When the other ham went to turn it back
to him he said he had not been able to copy his call. My froend went back to
him with whiskey brovo five lima oscar Zulu. Again the other ham told him he
didn't get his call. This time my friend gave his call twice using ITU
phonetics. Again the other ham said he had not copied his call. This time my
froend gave Willy Backer five London ocean zebra. Again the other ham said
he had not copied his call. Next my friend tried Wiskey Baker five Long Open
Zipper. The other station was able to copy his call this time, His point to
all this is you should try different things and use what works best for you.
TNX & 73,
Dave N0EOP
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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Best callsign letters
And when I use Del-Ta Del-Ta for phonetics I get a lot of Alpha Delta's from
DX stations.
When they realize it's "DD", they come back with Denmark Denmark.
But If I use Denmark Denmark ..... they don't hear me.
Hank K8DD
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Doug Smith <dougw9wi@gmail.com> wrote:
> John Geiger wrote:
> > Has anyone done a study (or have ancetodal evidence) about which letters
> (using standard phonetics) get through best on SSB during pileups or
> marginal/weak conditions? For example, I though "j" would be decent
letter
> but many people seem to hear "Juliet" as "India". Don't know why they
make
> that confusion, but they do. So, which letters are best recognized and
less
> confused?
>
> I can tell you that for reasons completely unknown to me, people (both DX
> and domestic) seem to copy the "I" in my call as "R", whether I use
> phonetics or not.
>
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> Doug Smith W9WI
> Pleasant View, TN EM66
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