[CQ-Contest] Dupes or Duped?

[k1ttt]

Then use the one that will let you enter a dupe, the others aren't any good.
N1MM Logger lets you enter dupes with no problem.


David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Michael Coslo
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 13:46
> To: k1ttt at arrl.net
> Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Dupes or Duped?
> 
> 
> 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 -
> 
> 
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