see, thats where i don't understand,
I have been contesting since 75, and if i were to use a dupe sheet, and
I still do if i'm just playing in a contest for fun and not going to
enter, just giving contacts away. i still use paper. and it's the exact
same one as i used in 75,, alphabet across the top, numbers down the
side. my call would go in the 9S block, prefixes or anything else
combination has no mater last number/firstletter
Joe WB9SBD
doug smith wrote:
>On 8/30/09, Joe <nss@mwt.net> wrote:
>
>
>>I really never had any problem with dupe sheets. i hear soo many
>>complain about them I made my own and was a simple aplha numeric grid,
>>the number and the letter after thenumber, not any slower than a
>>computer version,
>>
>>
>
>I would suggest that the best operators of the 1970s would have
>trouble keeping dupe sheets without a computer today.
>
>The thing is, the number of prefixes, especially for U.S. stations,
>has skyrocketed. I recall dealing with W, K, WA, WB, WD, and N
>prefixes, and just beginning to have to find a way to deal with AA.
>All Canadians were still VE -- no VA prefixes. (except the occasional
>special-event station) DX stations already had a fair number of
>"weird" prefixes, but not nearly as many as we see today.
>
>About that time -- when KA prefixes (later to include KB..KJ), and the
>full range of 2x1 and 2x2 calls came along -- that's about the same
>time computer logging got started. I wonder to what degree prefix
>proliferation actually pushed the adoption of computer logging?
>
>==
>Doug Smith W9WI
>Pleasant View, TN EM66
>http://www.w9wi.com
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