I could have probably worked all that i did with 5 watts, conditions what they were............ I made 34 contacts in 16 hours, bit sparse to me liking, but of the 34 made, 19 were zone 3 contacts, t
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:13:07 -0800, mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com> wrote: _________________________________________________________ So once you have secured your zero-point mult, you refuse to give o
The zero-pointers don't bother me a bit (it's a lot faster to send "5NN 4" than to argue), but last weekend at "The Farm" (W0AIH) I was amazed (and amused) at how many zero-pointers came back later
It's better to work them than refuse to work them. If you don't work them they will not call you next time (SS, WPX, other contests). Also the ones that dupe you are totally clueless and more than li
There a lots of reasons why someone would dupe you, and cluelessness is only one of them! You might want to take a dupe as a flag that possibly the other station miscopied your call when you worked t
Or, the operator (me) may have had a cockpit problem when 4 times during the contest I made a dupe. Sri to those 4 for calling you after I was in your log. Time to crawl in the hole till the next con
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:39:58 -00, "K0HB" <K-Zero-HB@earthlink.net> wrote: _________________________________________________________ I'm not talking about dupes. I'm talking about zero-point contacts w
Yes but since I´m sure that over 90 percent do use PC loging I can´t understand why so many dupes you. In the CT9L M/2 CQWW CW operation that I took part in we worked over 300 dupes and t
People may need to be more careful, but the truth is this: if a station using computer logging wants to work what you believe is a dupe, then you aren't in their log for the first QSO. Ergo, work 'em
Yes that´s what we did, for the same reason as you state below, however I still think 318 dubes was too much. Maybe that´s normal and I´m just not used to it, whatever.... as they s
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