> Everyone is missing the point.
> I DON'T CARE about whether I should work dupes or tell them B4.
> I DON'T CARE that Cabrillo doesn't have a score included.
> I DON'T CARE that the score checkers will process the log and compute a
> score.
> I'm probably not going to submit it anyway.
>
> I JUST WANT TO KNOW that if I work a dupe, and seeing as how WL has the
> option to not count one qso in a log and to give the credit to the second
> qso, if I'm theoretically correct in 'discrediting' the first qso and
> 'crediting' the second.
>
> My logic says that if I wasn't in the other guys log, then one of us made
> a
> mistake and it was a 'no qso'. Obviously the second contact was a qso.
>
>
I believe that everyone might be missing something here,
except for maybe Bill.
Let's say that we THOUGHT we worked him the first time,
but instead he was working someone else with perfect timing.
(someone we couldn't hear, also using our freq)
I later log him when he definitely calls me.
The problem with the first QSO is, yes it will be caught by
the log checkers, but if it's a NIL, we not only lose that
QSO but 3 additional QSOs (if CQWW, etc). So, if we leave
that first QSO in, we could lose 4. If we do not submit
it ("Mark QSO as Unclaimed"), we save ourselves a 4 QSO loss.
The bad news is that if it really was a legitimate dupe,
the other station will get a NIL (and 3 penalty QSOs).
If he is duping us, don't you think it's for a reason?
Like, we're not in his log (correctly) the first time?
By taking the 1st one out, we are saving ourselves 4 QSOs.
Chad WE9V
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