[CQ-Contest] Domestic stations in CQWW

[Richard DiDonna NN3W]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Harrison" <k0xp at dandy.net>
To: "Gordon LaPoint" <n1mgo at comcast.net>; "CQ-Contest" 
<cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Domestic stations in CQWW


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> You have to understand that in the CQWW DX contests in particular, when 
> you
> call a station that's "serious" about the contest, some ops will get 
> peeved
> at you and either not answer or, perhaps just to get you to stop calling,
> work but perhaps not log you. But these days, with computer logging, 
> nearly
> all M/M or other serious (and knowledgeable) contesters WILL log you since
> doing so costs them nothing except the time (and, perhaps later, the
> station operator's QSL to you). If they call again on the same band for a
> "dupe" Q, work them then politely but firmly tell them "we already worked,
> thanks"; after all, they have to learn the rules about making duplicate Qs
> somehow.
>
Thats not quite true.  I know that in a few instances there were two or 
three USA stations calling and two weak DX stations calling.  It was not 
possible to work the DX stations without having first worked the two 
stateside stations.  But the time I worked the two stateside stations, BOTH 
DX stations had QSYed.  Lost QSO points.

73 Rich NN3W