[CQ-Contest] Work 'Em Dupes...

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In a message dated 98-01-26 22:05:57 EST, jdroller at tricon.net writes:

<< Several calls on the dupe list belonged to what I consider to be contest
veterans that I have worked many times over the years. This group ought to
know better, but obviously do not or don't care! >>

It may be that when you <thought> you worked them before, they didn't log your
call correctly.  Or perhaps when you <thought> you worked them before, they
were working somebody else entirely (Note:  I'm always suspicious when
somebody comes back to my CQ when they're WAY off my frequency.....are they
really calling me, or are they calling somebody else?) 

My dupe rate wasn't quite as high as N4IJ's, 18 dupes out of 682 QSOs for
2.6%.

As a kind of checkpoint, when I came back to one particular guy who was a
dupe, I said, "QSO b4?" but then proceeded to send him a report.  He responded
with his report.  About a minute later, he called me again and said that he
had checked, and I was NOT in his log previously.  That incident was enough to
convince me that working guys that I think are dupes is the best strategy
(although I didn't really need convincing anyway!)

Modern contesting software handles the "messiness" of dupes quite
neatly....DUPES are clearly noted, zero points for the contact.  

73 - Phil, N6ZZ


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