One thing to keep in mind when questioning a high rate of dupes on Topband
is that to be certain of a QSO is not a simple matter. "But these guys
have been posted as being in the log" you say! I say "Just because the DX
station logged me doesn't mean I had a two-way QSO." I have seen many
requests for QSLs from rare places where the contacts simply didn't meet
any standard for a two-way QSO. The callsigns were in the log but the
station didn't respond, so I took it out of the log. Think about it: The
guy didn't even need to own a receiver to get that far. This is why I
dislike the "web log". Beacon DXing lives! Sorry, one-way QSOs don't do it
for me. How about you?
73, Wayne, N7NG
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, wb6tza@compuall.net wrote:
>
>I must STRONGLY echo and support Alex TL5A comments on dupes/insurance
>contacts. several mornings i had several stations call for "insurance"
>qsos covering up the few minutes of good propigation right at my sunrise.
>the last morning of operations, I worked 9 "NINE!!" dupes in a row,
>despite my pleading with them NOT to dupe me, they called again. I
>consider this very incosiderate, and not consistent with good operating
>practice on the Gentlemans band. I arranged at considerabe effort to
>deliver a list of stations worked EACH DAY to be posted on our web site,
in
>order to reduce this trouble. The combined dupe rate for both the 96 and
>98 trips exceeds 20 percent!! I believe some of these discourteous folks
>would very quickly change their practice if they once had to tolerate a
>night of buzzing and crashing with signals below the noise, only to have a
>dupe drift up out of the noise after trying hard for 20 minutes to
identify
>a signal.
>
>73
>robin critchell, wa6cdr, topband captain, XZ1N
>
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