[OKDXA] Best callsign letters

[AE5MH]

I like mine.. I picked in case I ever get back into CW
After I finally fingerd out that I wasn't going back to Alaska, I took the vanity insanity plunge and picked a 5 call that I would stick with.

Mark Hamblin
AE5MH


----- Original Message ----
From: John Geiger <aa5jg at yahoo.com>
To: Discussion of OKDXA <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wed, April 21, 2010 6:54:03 PM
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Best callsign letters

Plus SM stands for "Six Meters"!


--- On Wed, 4/21/10, Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Best callsign letters
> To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:34 PM
> Hi John, I have always though that
> (X)x-ray and (R) radio/romeo worked 
> well. Tried to get RR instead of SM (2nd choice) back in
> 1975 when I got 
> this one. SM is better for CW, though.
> 
> Bob
> 
> I rarely have trouble with those.in my call usually does
> fine except for 
> the first letter. Kilo
> 
> 
> On 4/21/2010 10:08 AM, 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?
> >
> > 73s John AA5JG
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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