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[WriteLog] how do you handle scoring when you work a dupe?

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Subject: [WriteLog] how do you handle scoring when you work a dupe?
From: nz3o@arrl.net (ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx)
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 20:30:18 -0400
It just doesn't matter.  I just send it in as-is.  73, Byron

At 07:10 PM 8/7/2001 -0500, FireBrick wrote:
>I agree that it's simpler to work a dupe than to discuss when and where.
>
>But how do you handle the scoring problem it creates.
>Say you log w1xx at the beginning of a contest. That's what you printed and
>you thought you had a legal contact.
>
>Later w1xx calls you on the same band.
>Your log shows it a dupe but you work him anyway.
>The log now shows THAT qso as a dupe and awards no points.
>
>what should you do, go back to the first qso you THOUGHT you had with that
>station and mark THAT qso as no points?
>This is the most logical to me but just curious as what others think because
>actually isn't that post contest log manipulation?
>


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