[CQ-Contest] The legacy of not working dupes

[Jeff Blaine]

It was pretty funny Mike.  But unfortunately in a "watch me shoot my 
foot" sort of way.  I got into contesting way too late and missed 
whatever it was that drove the no-dupes obsession back in the day.  Must 
have had something to do with paper logging or labor or something like 
that.  I'm sure there was a good reason the practice got started.  
Clearly that original momentum has plenty of legs even now when it seems 
the no-dupe thing is actually bad for biz.

73/jeff/ac0c
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
www.ac0c.com


On 1/6/20 6:17 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
> Jeff,
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> Like you, I always work dupes.  I work very little RTTY, but in the bigger
> CW contests, there always seem to be a very small # of EU's that will work
> me 2, 3 or even 7 times.  I can only surmise they trawl up and down the
> bottom end of 20m working the stronger NA stations to 'help them out' in the
> contest and are probably are not using a logging program.  I had to tell one
> guy one time after the 5th or 6th QSO in an hour or so "No more!"
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> I loved the "don't think so" you got. I found that very funny (and very sad
> at the same time) (if that makes sense.)
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> That'd be a new one on me.  Mike VE9AA
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> "..I was S&P and called a guy that had apparently worked me - but was not in
> my log.  I got the "BEFORE" reply which I get a few times each contest and
> for that case, I have a short macro that says "NIL - plz work again".  And
> to my complete amazement the guy sent a reply - apparently typed by hand as
> the pace was a bit slower than normal macro exchange speed - "dont think
> so."   Wow, never had someone tell me that.   So the net result of this is
> he lost a point because he's not in my log and that will pop in the cross
> check. And we must have wasted a minute or two doing the dance.  Good move
> all around, OM! .."
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> alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
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> www.ac0c.com
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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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