[CQ-Contest] The dupes?

[Julius Fazekas]

Jukka,

It may also be possible that you have copied and logged a call incorrectly, which would also be a potential NIL.

I have to admit if I'm in S&P and I run across someone sending "QSO B4", I keep going (unless it's really slow going). I figure a time killing debate is about to start.

My opinion is you risk more by not logging the dupe and even more by removing a previous logged QSO. This is due to my operating comfort zone. I find I have few if any NILs and more busted calls.

Wonder if anyone has any statistics to prove this one way or another?

73,
Julius 

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
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--- On Wed, 12/10/08, Jukka Klemola <jukka.klemola at elisanet.fi> wrote:

> From: Jukka Klemola <jukka.klemola at elisanet.fi>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The dupes?
> To: "'Jim Rhodes'" <k0xu at longlines.com>, "'CQ-Contest'" <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 2:30 PM
> All,
> as there has been also others replying I am not behaving
> correctly ..
>  
> I am puzzled.
>  
> My justification for saying QSO B4 is that I have the
> station call in my
> log.
>  
> The station calling me for a second time is either of the
> two:
> 1.	paper log without updated dupesheet
> 2.	computer log that I am not in
>  
> The first is that I accept and understand.
>  
> But the second is something that needs a review.
> So I have the station’s call in my log but he does not
> have my call in
> his log.
>  
> My interpretation has been the first QSO is an error in his
> log or a
> potential NIL for me.
>  
> So, I initiate discussion of the line in my log whether it
> is something
> I need to work on or we both need to work on.
>  
>  
> For Jim especially .. have you considered you have logged a
> bad call and
> when the other wants to discuss about it during the contest
> and on the
> band/mode in question, you discard the initiative?
>  
>  
> Or how do you see this?
>  
>  
> 73
> jukka OH6LI
>  
>  
>  
>  
> -----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
> Lähettäjä: Jim Rhodes [mailto:k0xu at longlines.com] 
> …
> When someone tells me "QSO B4" I just spin the
> dial and let them get the
> NIL in their log. Maybe some day they will learn. No skin
> off me & they
> get any penalty. Takes too long to argue, I might miss 2 or
> 3 more Q's
> by taking the time to make someone admit they might be in
> error. But
> hey, it's your log and your score.
> 
> At 07:51 AM 12/10/2008, Jukka Klemola wrote:
> …
> Ward's letter tells to log them.
>  
> I do not.
> Instead I tell the other station QSO B4.
> In case of a disagreement, I agree with the station that I
> remove the
> 1st QSO and the QSO we will log is the one I leave in the
> log.
>  
> …
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