[CQ-Contest] Worked Before...

[Eric Hilding]

Scott, KI5DR wrote;

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I encountered an incident a couple of times this last weekend during WPX SSB.
Once was on 10m SSB working an SA station, and he gave me "sorry, worked
before".
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Although only part-time in the WPX, I had more than I wanted of these 
embarrassing situations.

WL clearly showed a new station, non-dupe status when I typed in the 
callsigns, called the stations, only to be told "worked before".  Several 
even gave me the QSO # and time, and scrolling back through the log, 
discovered we had in fact QSO'd.  Bizarre.

The culprit was WL, and my apologies to any (one might have been KI5DR :-) 
who had to endure this technological based problem during the contest.  I 
need to do more research, but I believe most of the problems involved 
"split" frequency operation.

73...

Rick, K6VV