[CQ-Contest] The dupes?

[Larry]

You may have copied someone who was working someone else on a few hundred
hertz away. I have had stations acknowledge my report when I was in fact
working someone else nearby. The station I was wrking and the other station
are sending essentially the same things at the same time.This actually
happens quite often to me while I am in S&P mode. If I had not already
worked them I usually go work them legitimately for the log. Probably some
penalties involved but unless we are talking about duplicate 3, 4, or more
times in a contest like WW I find it is usually quicker to just work them
again. Something like SS with a long exchange is a different story. FWIW

73, Larry  W6NWS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jukka Klemola" <jukka.klemola at elisanet.fi>
To: "'Jim Rhodes'" <k0xu at longlines.com>; "'CQ-Contest'"
<CQ-Contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The dupes?


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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