[CQ-Contest] The legacy of not working dupes

[rjairam at gmail.com]

When I first started contesting I fastidiously avoided dupes. But I believe
contest rules were amended to not penalize them, so now I log all dupes.

I guess some haven’t moved on from the dupes =penalty mindset.

Ria
N2RJ

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:51 PM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> 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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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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