> So folks, if someone calls you and you think it is a dupe, just work 'em
again.
Sound advice for sure. I do the log checking for most, if not all, of the
160 meter contests and I can tell you that there is no harm in working a
duplicate station. And seldom are the rates on 160 meters are high enough
for it to have any impact on your score.
Log all of the QSOs you make - even if they are dupes. The log checking
will figure it out from there.
And again - I am frustrated that during difficult conditions, stations
won't send my callsign when I am CQing. Conditions this weekend were
horrible. I had someone in Florida call me - which I thought was
impossible - and decided not to work them when they did not respond to "who
are you working?" - as I thought for sure they were answering a European I
couldn't hear. I even did the same thing when someone called in from Texas
- that band was that bad.
73 Tree N6TR
On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 8:24 AM Jon Zaimes, AA1K via Topband <
topband@contesting.com> wrote:
> Sometime during the second night of this weekend's CQ 160 meter CW
> contest, I answered a W station that was calling CQ. They came back with
> "dupe" though they were not in my log. I said "no" and sent a report.
> They came back with "already worked" and didn't send me a report.
> I repeated "not in log" and sent a report. They came back with a time that
> I was apparently in their log. But they were not in my log.
> Since it was a slow period I persisted and they finally sent me a report.
> But this fellow wasted far more of both of our time than if he had just
> worked me when I called. There is no penalty for working a dupe -- the log
> checkers just ignore duplicates.
> Had I not persisted, however, this W station would have been penalized
> since his alleged QSO was not in my log.
> So folks, if someone calls you and you think it is a dupe, just work 'em
> again. They may have actually been working someone else, or flubbed entry
> on the keyboard of your callsign. Just log it a second time if you think it
> is a dupe.
>
>
> 73/Jon
>
> Jon P. Zaimes, AA1K
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