[DX] Re: [dx-list] GREAT NEWS

[John Geiger]

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF ONLY CALLING WITH YOUR LAST TWO
LETTERS?  I have never understood this-how your last
two letters increase the likelihood of you being heard
relative to your whole callsign.  It seems to me that
to be heard, at least part of your callsign has to be
heard over the rest of the hoard-it doesn't matter
whether that is your prefix, number plus one letter,
or last two letters.

Am I wrong on this?  Is there something magical about
the last two letters of a call that allows that audio
to transcend the ether better than any other part of
the call.  Is that why I sometimes don't get through
when I use my entire callsign.  Is there a physicist
out there who can confirm or deny the acoustical
properties of the last two letters versus the entire
call (or at least the prefix).

Along a related line-what is the point of calling the
DX station when he is replying to another station.  He
probably cannot hear while he is transmitting, so how
can he hear your call?  I am usually tuning to find
the station that he is working-figuring that is where
he is listening.

I guess I have been doing it wrong all along.  That is
why I only have 293 worked instead of being on the
honor roll-if only I had recognized the error of my
ways before-I might have worked the South Sandwich
group last month.

73s John NE0P

p.s see you in the Ducie piles, I will be shouting my
last two while the DX station is transmitting
--- Ali Bubba <na1i@portone.com> wrote:
> Stu,
> Thanks for the post, what pleases me even more is
> their request as
> listed in #3. The devout KNETKNIKS will have to do
> appropriate penance
> to shed their souls of these transgressions of the
> lass-too club.
> 
> 3. They are asking everyone  calling on phone to use
> their  full call
> signs
> and NOT THE LAST  TWO  LETTERS.
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