[CQ-Contest] Dupes or Duped?

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I had the same thing happen in SS. I probably have a busted call in my log.
I could never get the guy to tell me when we had worked.  The other scenario
is he thought I worked him but was working someone else in that case he will
get the NIL or busted Qso penalty.

It is worth the time to fix the problem if someone says you are not in my
log.  There are NO penalties for dupes with electronic logs!  I duped a SA
station in the CQ WW CW because I copied his call wrong the second time.
The station never said anything but I did ask for his call and he slowed
down and low and behold it was a dupe.  No harm no foul.

Some guys don't log and will try to work you a bunch of times in SS.  Those
I generally tell "hey we worked at XX and they said oh sorry and move on.  I
would rather them try to work me a few times than not at all.

Prior to computer logging there was no choice but to log everyone and dupe
check later if you were at a DX location with big rates.  The dupe rates
were considerably higher back then.  I wish I still had the data from our
VP2KBU and V47A, V47M efforts in the 80's in the ARRL DX tests.

Mike W0MU 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dennis OConnor
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:24 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Dupes or Duped?

One of the issues I encountered during the contest I decided to bring up
here is the issue of dupes...
A few times during the contest I called a DX only to be told to 'buzz off
you are a dupe!'  In each of those times I had not worked them before, I had
not worked them and broken their call, such as substituting 5 for H, B for
D, etc., I had not worked their grandfather, or even dated their sister...
My sending 'not in log', was greeted with being CQ'd in my face...  OK, I
contest for fun so I shrugged and moved on... But I do not understand those
stations that act like a dupe contact is akin to catching a social
disease... In each of those cases the DX had logged a Q with my call and now
he has a bad Q that will not match in my log...   Working me "again" would
have at least recovered a couple of those lost points...

Maybe the group can explain to me why these ops are so phobic about logging
a dupe?  Now, for those stations I did actually dupe because I caught a
partial call in heavy qrm and/or tail ended someone <mea culpa>, I did log
those so that both our logs match and all is well... Interestingly, the big
shooters that I did dupe accidentally <HC8N> for one simply worked me again
in 2 seconds flat without comment and we both moved on; a win-win...

denny / k8do

 
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