Hello, about OCDXContest a YC#XX answer on 21 mhz to my Call No EU
station...uhmm but at Point # 4. THE OBJECT is for: • Oceania
transmitting stations to contact as many stations as possible both
inside and outside the Oceania region. May be I'm wrong something? Best
73 de Claudio IK5RLP
Il 08/10/2017 19:07, David Gilbert ha scritto:
Some decent advice there, Charlie, but I'm going to have to disagree
with a few of your phonetics. I've given this subject a lot of
thought over the years and I agree that common place names are a good
idea, but several of the words you consider to be bad are so commonly
used that anyone who has operated a contest for more than an hour is
going to recognize them pretty easily. ALPHA, BRAVO, DELTA, ECHO,
HOTEL, and KILO pretty much fit that description. I typically use
ALPHA and BRAVO in contests because they are so common and they are
short, but in some situations I will mix them up with AMERICA and
BOSTON because I agree they can be more recognizable.
GOLF and GULF are indeed terrible in almost every respect, though. I
really don't understand why people use them.
More importantly, in my opinion, is that words with short syllables
and sharp consonants make a huge difference in intelligibility ...
there is more burst audio energy in them. For example, ECHO trumps
ENGLAND every day of the week in that regard. You can literally feel
the difference when you say them. Although I typically use ALPHA, I
don't like the way the PH is so mushy and I will switch to AMERICA if
it isn't working. A word like ATTIC would work well except that
nobody would recognize it. ;)
Other things being equal, and this is just my opinion, I also think
that short two syllable words are better than words with more of
them. WASHINGTON and HONOLULU are pretty bad on both length and
crispness. I can hear and recognize WHISKEY within the same window of
QRM/QRN that it takes for an ambiguous INGTON to come though.
Intelligibility is a mixture of both reception and recognition ...
it's not a good idea to ignore either.
Your best advice, though, is to switch to a different phonetic if one
isn't getting through. It is pretty frustrating for me to have
somebody keep using the same phonetic over and over after I've already
asked for a handful of repeats. I've even had to tell somebody on the
other end to use a different phonetic because it was obvious I wasn't
grasping one they were using.
Take care,
Dave AB7E
On 10/7/2017 7:49 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
Things I have learned, again, this time working people in triangle area
from Singapore to Palau to Timor and humbly and apologetically offer
advice
to operators in that area.........
-Learn more radio English.
-Practice saying your call sign in clear English, not so fast, and use
clear phonetics*.
-Learn alternative words for your call in other phonetics.
-Repeat your info at least twice all the time.
-Give your whole call sign, especially the prefix for yagis to be
turned to
you.
Thank you very much. Help upcoming DX contest sponsored in that
area (in
January?).
*Do not use GULF, GOLF, ALPHA, BRAVO, DELTA, ECHO, HOTEL, KILO,
LIMA, and
other bad ones.
Use AMERICA, BOSTON, CANADA/CHARLIE, DENMARK, ENGLAND, FLORIDA, GERMANY,
HONOLULU, ITALY, JAPAN, KENTUCKY, LONDON, MEXICO, NORWAY, ONTARIO, PAPA,
QUEEN, RADIO, SANTIAGO, TOKYO, UNITED, VICTORIA, WASHINGTON, X-RAY,
YOKOHAMA, ZANZIBAR.
I have spent years testing these words with non-native English speakers
and THEY WORK first time. They are based on common PLACE names
featured in
the news media in most languages, PORTUGAL, QUEBEC excepted.
Thanks, 73
Charly, HS0ZCW
HONOLULU SANTIAGO ZERO ZANZIBAR CANADA WASHINGTON
Better to be heard long *once* than not heard shorter three times.
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