Hi Jim,
How are things down the road? Well, I take the opposite approach. I say work
'em and log 'em. If I'm calling CQ during a contest and a dupe calls me, I
just work 'em. WriteLog will figure out the score, and as others have stated
in this thread, it takes less time to work them than it does to tell them
they're a dupe. Given that it's not any extra effort to work them, I also
like to think of it as a courtesy to the other station. They may have busted
my call the first time and may be looking to confirm a county or a country
or a state for an award. I don't mind helping them out with the wallpaper.
You're right about one thing though. It's not as elegant of an operating
practice though.
Mark, KOMS
-----Original Message-----
From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jim Kinser
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 22:12
To: 'Dave L Thompson'; writelog@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Working dupes
If you are S&P ing you should not even be calling the station if he is a
dupe!!. And if he calls you when you are calling a CQing station, then you
should send nothing cuz ur just encroaching on the CQers freq. When you
are CQ ing, then the example F key program provided in the Writelog manual
for dupe checking before the exchange works extremely well. I have yet to
have any station who called me question my programmed response when CQing
that he was "QSO B4 OM TU" QRZ N0AJ. This works equally well for both RTTY
and CW. Sure I have logged dupes before, but I try my damndest not to. So
should everyone. Its just a matter of pride in trying to keep the log
clean. When we finally let the electrons do all the thinking for us then
we are doomed!
Jim, N0AJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave L Thompson [SMTP:k4jrb@juno.com]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 9:38 PM
To: writelog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Working dupes
I agree with Clive on dups. Unless I am S&P ing I don't have time to
stop and tell a station that he is a dup. Clive also brings up a valid
point about why you should log a valid duplicate contact. Say early in
the contest I think SV9XX came back to me on 160
when actually he was working another European. Simply a matter of
timing. Howver later the SV9 answers my CQ and if I don't log it then I
lose the mult. With the cabrillo log no points are assigned until the
log checking program scores the log. I would lose the first contact as
NIL but get full credit for the second. There is no penalty for dups
in most contests.
73 Dave K4JRB
>
>
> I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would take the
> time to tell someone they're a dupe instead of working them, it
> takes as long, potentially results in conflicts, and possibly
> dumps you in the arms of the UBN police. It may have had some
> relevance in the days of paper logging, but now?. After all how
> do you *know* that you are in the other station's log; quite
> simply you can't know.
>
>
> 73
>
>
> Clive
> GW3NJW
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