If my puter says "DUPE" I don't log it.
Dan/W4NTI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Breed" <gary@noblepub.com>
To: <secc@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [SECC] Dupes
> Cort
>
> It takes a little more time to complete an exchange than it does to tell
> a guy he is a dupe, so in the ARRL CW, I started out by telling guys they
> were dupes. After the second one said "no, please work me" I started
> working dupes!
>
> It is possible that they copied my call wrong first time, I copied a
> similar call wrong, or they worked someone else on a nearby frequency
> and the timing made me think I worked him.
>
> When called by the same stations for the 3rd or 4th time, I did tell them
> "QSO B4."
>
> 73, Gary
> K9AY
>
>
>
> > Hi guys, I would like to get some collective wisdom on the practice of
> just
> > logging dupes as they occur instead of sri wkd b4. I made 1513 qso's
this
> > past weekend on 10 mtrs of which 64 were dupes. Most came from Run
> > situations where Writelog identified them as dupes and I logged them
> again.
> > A few came from me calling a dx station who didn't identify much in S+P
> > mode. If one figures 20 seconds per exchange, I used up 21 minutes of
> > valuable time on logging dupes. I s there any way to figure out if it
was
> > worth it? Thanks
> > Cort
> > Courtney Judd K4WI
> > ex-K4JYO
> > check out www.k4wi.net
> >
>
>
>
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