HNY to all,
I guess I've been out of the list in the previous discussions of
WKDB4, Im in total favor of just work the guy and let the computer
figure it out. But that brings and interesting point to the situation:
1. Does it really help you in the score to work somebody when the
station after the contest will remove dupes?
2. I know of many people that they will send the report and not log you
at all.
3. When the contest comitee reviews the log and finds those one way qsos
do they take that one out?.
a. Does the comitee confirms qsos via bin check or if times are
different they will eliminate the qso?
b. Do they understand that if Im in somebody's log that doesnt
mean that they are in mine?
I have many other Questions regarding this matter, that trouble me
everytime that somebody tell's me, "worked before" and they are not in
my log. Is it them? is it us? who screwed up?
After writing this email I thing there are simple options.
1. Do not remove dupes.
2. convince the station to remove the first qso(one way)
mark the qso as the good one and remove the original after the test.
3. Be lazy and just think of at as a lost one.
Finally I dont think of it as stupidities, since I would have to
consider myself stupid too, but as a serious matter that needs
attention, taking into consideration that lately, these encounters
with simple problems are less common, since machines have so much to
say in our hobby.
73's
Felipe Hernandez
NP4Z
Puerto Rico Contest Club KP3Z
Pobox 193660
San Juan, PR 00919
John Devoldere (ON4UN) wrote:
>
> I get very excited when someone, be it on CW, Phone or RTTY comes back to
> my calls and sends "Worked Before"... Well, If he would be in my log, I
> would not call him! I know this has been discussed before, and most, after
> having explained that "they" are not in "our" log, give me "another" report.
>
> Some profer to argue for 5 minutes instead of giving a report which takes
> 10 seconds...
>
> The worst experience I recall was this weekend in the ARRL RTTY Roundup
> with CT4NH who flatly kept refusing to gives us a report, because "WKD
> B4"... He and we must have lost at least 10 minutes in this thing, but he
> refused to give us "another" report...
>
> Are some people so "st..." that they don't understand that because someone
> is in their log, it not neccesarily means that "they" are in "our" log...
>
> I get excited everytime someone refuses "another" QSO.
>
> When someone calls us who's already in our log, we just work him. That
> fair, fast and smart. The computer program will indicate it as a dupe.
> Everybody is happy.
>
> 73
>
> John, ON4UN
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