[CQ-Contest] Techniques of Ye Olden Days

[Richard F DiDonna NN3W]

Thats one thing that struck me when I was reading through a stack of NCJs 
that I inherited a few years back - dupe checking services.  I think N6TR 
ran one of them.  You submitted the log and you paid by the QSO.

73 Rich NN3W

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David J. Sourdis" <hk1kxa at hotmail.com>
To: "CQ contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Techniques of Ye Olden Days


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> At the QSO rates when contesting from HK was not practical to use the dupe 
> sheet during the contest. My first big log, 1300+ Qs, it took me one week 
> to sort the dupes out, taking the first QSO and looking for it all the way 
> down to the end of those handwritten papers. Next, go to the 2nd QSO and 
> repeat, dumb way to do it. Next test was almost 2000 QSO, so I decided to 
> use a giant Dupe Sheet on an A1 size paper (that is the same size of 2 
> rows by 4 columns of letter size A4's or 22" x 34") to clean my log after 
> the contest, of course.
>
> I developed the skill of being able to send CW with my left hand while 
> writing a different thing on the log at the same time with my right hand. 
> Now you just press F1 or F5 or ENTER to send while you grab and munch a 
> sandwich. That was another privilege for the CW op only; eating or 
> drinking while contesting/QSOing, not anymore, now we have voice keying 
> with recorded messages.
>
> 73
>
> David
> HK1KXA
> EC5KXA
>
>
>
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>> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:40:47 -0500
>> From: nss at mwt.net
>> To: nf1j at earthlink.net
>> CC: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Techniques of Ye Olden Days
>>
>> Mine were the 11 by 17 inch paper size!
>> and sometimes we needed to make two!
>> We started sliding them some too,  like making the 6 land bigger and the
>> 7 land smaller  etc.
>>
>> Joe WB9SBD
>> Warren C. Stankiewicz wrote:
>>
>> >Ah, dupe sheets.
>> >
>> >The master of dupe sheets has to be Fred Laun, K3ZO.
>> >
>> >His dupe sheets were HUGE. Easily the size of a table top. I don't know
>> >where he got the idea to do that (Fred?), but they were truly amazing.
>> >
>> >What makes it even more interesting is that in terms of logging 
>> >accuracy,
>> >Fred was always one of the top ten most accurate loggers I ever knew. I 
>> >know
>> >part of that was call sign recognition (which is incredibly important), 
>> >but
>> >I have to believe that in the pre-computer days, these massive 
>> >masterpieces
>> >had to have played an important part.
>> >
>> >73,
>> >
>> >Warren, NF1J
>> >
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