[CQ-Contest] The legacy of not working dupes

[Edward Sawyer]

The issue was if you missed it as a dupe, it got credited as another Q.  And we all missed recognizing some back then.

Ed

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Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 9:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The legacy of not working dupes

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

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