[CQ-Contest] Dupes

[David Robbins K1TTT]

> 
> At 11:46 AM 12/5/2003, Tom Frenaye K1KI wrote:
> 
> >Looking back at previous logs here we usually have about 100 dupes in
a
> >3000 QSO log, and 140 dupes in a 4000 QSO log and 175 in a 5000 QSO
> >log.  I bet K3LR W3LPL and KC1XX end up with 250 or more in their
9000
> QSO
> >logs.
> 
> KC1XX CQWW 2003 SSB had 278 dupes out of 7816 total QSOs.
> KC1XX CQWW 2003  CW had 227 dupes out of 9757 total QSOs.
> 
> Anyone care to speculate why there would be more dupes on phone than
on
> CW?
> 

there's one good possibility... it shows there are probably more casual
ops who don't keep computerized logs and make more qso's than they can
easily check in their paper log by eye for dupes.

And one bad one... there is more qrm and more of a chance of overlapping
cq's accidentally working the same station without knowing it.


David Robbins K1TTT
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