[CQ-Contest] Why not work dupes?

[DGB]

Exactly what I do ... have a macro that says "not in log". Seems to get 
their attention! ;-)

73 de ns9i



On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Hank Garretson wrote:


> When that happens to me, I sometimes send something to the effect:
>
> NOT IN LOG HERE WORK AGAIN SO YOU DO NOT GET PENALIZED
>
> That usually works. If not his loss, not mine.
>
> Contest Exuberantly,
>
> Hank, W6SX
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA <
> ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>
>> ARGH ! Just experienced this frustration this morning.
>>
>> Playing in the 9A CW contest.  Nothing even remotely serious, however as I
>> S&P'd up the band trying "ESM" for the first time in N1MM+
>>
>> I came across a moderately well known central EU guy I had not worked
>> before
>> and he said "QSO B4" and I said "NO NO" and he said
>>
>> "YES YES YES, " and I said "NO" and he said "I was your QSO # 4", so I said
>> "NO" and he said "SRI"..
>>
>>
>>
>> Now, normally I wouldn't have bothered one bit and moved on after the first
>> QSO B4, but I was just trying ESM out for the first time and not at all
>> serious, (I only had perhaps 10 Q's at this point) so I just sent "73 73"
>> (got a nice 73 and GL back) and moved along making another dozen Q's before
>> lunch.  I'll likely have <100 Q's by the time the contest is over.
>>
>>
>>
>> So, I double checked the 9A contest rules and I don't see DUPES mentioned.
>> (do any contests still penalize you for working dupes since the computer
>> was
>> invented so many decades ago?)
>>
>>
>>
>> Like I said, normally I wouldn't have wasted the time, but I am not serious
>> in this one, so, I missed a QSO and buddy in central EU will get dinged for
>> 2 QSO's the way I see.  The other VE9 he apparently worked, but busted his
>> callsign, and my missing QSO as he flatly refused to work me.
>>
>>
>>
>> What gives>?
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it some holdover by ancient OF's who always do/did paper logging and
>> cannot get a grip on modern reality?
>>
>>
>>
>> I have to know.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike VE9AA
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>>
>>
>> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>>
>> Keswick Ridge, NB
>>
>>
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