Re: sending off dupes.. On CW, understand that a fair percentage of the
folks you work can't copy 100% at the speed you're sending. Many of them
only got your call & exchange because they listened to your last 5-10 QSOs &
assembled enough fills to count it. Send something unexpected like "B4SRI"
(which may not even make sense to a non-contester who *can* copy 100% at
your speed!) and you've lost them. If I forget to turn autodupe off & start
sending this, about half the time the dupe sends me an exchange -- or a
barrage of question marks -- anyway. Just working them is easier for
everyone involved.
BTW I4JMY brings up an important point. If you're working a lot of dupes,
you need to ask yourself why. One thing that certainly leads to excessive
dupes is not IDing often enough. When I'm S&P & I hear a QSO end, if the
finishing station doesn't sign his call, I call him. And 50-75% of the
time, he's a dupe. On the occasions I screw up & forget to sign *my* call
while running, 30-50% of the time the next station to call me will be a dupe.
(Jay VY1JA.. I don't claim to be a RTTY contester, but regular telephone
modem programs like Procomm Plus -- and even Windows Terminal -- work fine
with a MFJ-1278.)
73 Doug
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