[CQ-Contest] Dupes or Duped?

[Michael Coslo]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 6:24 PM, K1TTT wrote:

> They are old school contesters who used to worry about the number  
> of dupes
> in the log because they misunderstood the disqualification  
> statements in the
> rules that said 'too many UNCLAIMED dupes is grounds for  
> disqualification'
> (paraphrased and emphasized by me).  Even in the old days of paper  
> logs you
> didn't get dq'ed for too many dupes, you got dq'ed if you didn't  
> properly
> score them as zero points.  But the misconception lives on, and on,  
> and on.
> By not working you 'again' that station loses 3 times your point  
> value if
> you submit your log.
>
> What they really don't understand is that there is NO penalty for  
> dupes in a
> computerized logs... you don't even have to mark them as zero  
> points because
> the log checking computer does that for you when they rescore your  
> log.

	I'm not sure I understand - all the contest log software I've used  
except one won't allow me to enter a dupe at all. Perhaps that is one  
of the reasons why people don't want to work dupes?


-73 de Mike KB3EIA -