99.99% of the time I'll work dupes. Certainly, in single band contests,
the chances of someone "working you" more than twice is fairly remote.
Seems like every really big contest (like CQWW CW for example) on 20M,
there are always 1 or 2 probably well meaning guys, who can work me 3,4,
5, even 9 times....This usually occurs on Sunday afternoon from
callsigns I am not familiar with, usually from W/VE. After probably 4-5
times, I'll just ignore them. (it's easy to do)
My thinking is (it's really just a guess) is that they are likely not
contesters, not running contest logging software (like N1MMLogger+)
which would ID me as a dupe and are just going up and down the band
"helping out" (that's what I think is going on).
If you call me 2 or 3 times in the ARRL 10 or ARRL 160 you won't hear me
complain. For any number of reasons, likely "something" has happened to
our previous Q, so no biggie. Let's work again and move on.
Thanks for all the contest Q's guys !
CU (all of a sudden!) in the next one.
Mike VE9AA "NB"
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