[CQ-Contest] The legacy of not working dupes

[john at kk9a.com]

There was never a penalty for working dupes. You just had to removed  
them from your log and not take the QSO credit for the second or third  
QSO. I was never good at maintaining a running dupe sheet which came  
with many contests where you wrote the callsigns in a numerical and  
alphabetical order. I did this post contest and simply removed the  
dupes. This was quite a task when I operated from the Caribbean and  
made thousands of QSOs. For those I made a drafting board sized dupe  
sheet and spent hours going though my log. Computer logging is so  
awesome but please work the dupes!

John KK9A  (W4AAA last weekend)



N2RJ wrote:


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