We're talking about working split, right? How would I know if a second
station 20k away from the one I'm calling is also listening on my xmit
freq? If I call him two minutes later and he says I'm a dupe, I won't
actually know what happened. I think sending the other guy's call
(without phonetics) is a good suggestion for split phone contests, Mike.
What I can't understand is why so many guys still worry about QSO B4
when actual dupes are summarily removed by the contest loggers with no
penalty of any kind. Yes, it does slow the rate.
73 George W1EBI
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From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike Gilmer
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:28 AM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] QSO B4
The big problem is even knowing there are two stations listening on the
same
freq. Most times one would not know this was happening, so there's
nothing
"special" one can do.
Sending the other station's call seems the only thing one can do, and
for it
to be effective, it seems it must be done whenever there's a high
likelihood
of this happening (like ALL the time on 40 phone in a DX contest).
However, if somehow you *know* there are two guys listening on one
freq.,
and both come back to you, I would just log them both. Two QSOs for one
"over" is quite efficient. Doesn't work quite so well in a serial
number
contest, though... Regardless, this is pretty rare, IMO.
Now, something that is less rare... suppose you are on 40SSB in CQWW,
and
call IR4T and he says QSO B4, and he isn't in your log, nor is there
anything close. He tells you that you worked at 03:44Z the previous
day,
and you were on 40 then, but still cannot find a match. Two things can
happen:
1.0) He does the smart thing and works you "again" and now you are in
each
other's logs.
2.0) He gives you a hard time and won't work you again. So, you can
either:
2.1) go away and not log him. You lose one QSO, but <hand
wringing> he
loses four.
2.2) log him anyway - is that not the "smart" thing since "logged
QSO
time" seems to not be an issue in log checking (yet)?
73 Mike N2MG
K4JRB wrote:
> If say D44TD and IR4T are both listening on the same frequency how do
you
> stop this duplication? Sometimes it is not prudent to start with
their
> call ( D44TD this is K4JRB) but its the only way I know to stop the
B4.
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