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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