W5ASP@aol.com writes:
>
> Now why did I end up with over 160 dupes.... many, if not most, from the East
> Coast and mid West. I imagine that a large part of the answer is Packet and
> CAT. It's difficult for me to believe that the majority of those who duped me
> miscopied my call on the initial contact... simply because they must have
> called me in response to my CQ (with my call nearly always given after each
> QSO.) And as I mentioned, I think I had a distinctive, clearly readable
> signal.
I do not understand why you think it is packet that is causing the dupes.
I do not think it is packet. Packet might be one of the reasons but
consider the following:
1. There were dupe QSOs BEFORE packet radio.
2. Not eveyone can copy the code.
3. Not eveyone uses a computer to log or even a dupesheet if
they are using paper. I bet that many of your casual contacts
are NOT using any sort of dupe checking.
4. Not eveyone is on packet.
I will give you an example. I did FD in 1994 on 20m ssb only.
In fact I was on 14.226+/- 1 kHz.
I made about 2800 QSOs in 17 hours. 795 of those QSOs were dupes.
I am willing to bet that I was NOT spotted too many times on packet.
I will concede that the ARRL Field Day is an extreme case of
poor dupesheet usage - but really dont buy the idea that packet
is causing dupe QSOs. We really did have them BEFORE packet spotting.
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