[CQ-Contest] Is working the QSO B4 good on long term for us ?

[john at kk9a.com]

I have done a lot of single band contesting so I have seen my fair share of
dupes. Typically the rates are slower on the second day when many of the
dupes appear. Many are just trying to help by giving out a contact. On the
low bands in CQ WW contests I get called by hundreds of US stations. These
are all zero point contacts but I work them and the dupes with a smile.

John KK9A
 

-----Original Message-----
From: VE2TZT [mailto:ve2tzt at arrl.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 20:37
To: cq-contest at contesting.com; john at kk9a.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Is working the QSO B4 good on long term for us ?

I am OK with that, in that case when you have a doubt or you take the
contest seriously you just have to answer NO to my QSO B4 and I do work you
without any question.

But understand that on my side working 100 DUPES out of 1500 QSO starts to
be problematic.

I just have observed that among all the 60 QSO B4 that I have sent this WE
none have said NO and most have answered SRI.

It then looks like most of the guys are just working the contest casually,
they might have just not pushed the space bar to check the dupe or just did
not listen to my signal after having clicked on the spot. Then when they are
receiving a QSO B4 they are not really surprised... In you case, while you
are taking it seriously, if you receive a QSO B4 you know something was not
OK with the previous QSO then you just have to insist to work this QSO by
just answering NO.

73's

Gilles VA2EW

On 08/12/2015 06:31, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> That is unsportsmanlike conduct. Lets say we work early in the contest 
> and I log you incorrectly as VA2EA,  Later I call VA2EW and you won't work
me.
> You get credit for the previous contact and I don't. It would have 
> been just as easy to give me a report the second time. QSO B4 is not 
> one of my macros.
>
> John KK9A
>
>
> To:	cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject:	[CQ-Contest] Is working the QSO B4 good on long term for us
?
> From:	VE2TZT <ve2tzt at arrl.net>
> Date:	Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:27:56 -0500
> List-post:
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>
> It is after that bad experience that I have decided to systematically 
> refuse the QSO's B4.
>
> After all, if my callsign is busted in the other guy log, I do not 
> lose the points but he lose the points and if he answers ''NO'' when I 
> send QSO
> B4 then I will work him without discussion.
>
> Interested by your opinion on that point.
>
> Gilles VA2EW
>
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