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[JOHN GEIGER]

I have seen the same thing both in contesting and in day to day operating.  Given that a FT8/FT4 QSO is going to last a minute or less, and logging is electronic, I have never understood this reasoning behind setting up the program to not see or avoid stations you have worked before?  Is a dupe that big of a deal?  The other station might be running a contest, as you point out, or need your country for a DX Marathon point for that year.  I have worked stations numerous times on the same band with FT8 and don't see what the big deal is.



73 John AF5CC


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---- On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:09:02 -0500 ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote ---



It's relatively easy for FT operators to avoid working stations they have worked before, using colors in WSJT-X or more capable filtering in its very popular clones. 
I participated in the recent RSGB FT4 Int'l Activity Day (all activity on regular FT4 bands) and there were stations I wasn't able to work even though they had strong signals and weren't busy. They just didn't answer my calls. I kept track of some of them and later checked my master log and found I had worked most of them before on FT4 band involved. I'd guess that these stations would also not answer my CQs.
I myself make use of these filtering techniques to avoid dupes in normal operation.
It's interesting to consider that the longer others and I operate and work each other, the less likely we all will have any of these dupe QSOs, in contests or otherwise. I don't have this problem in contests, because I'm using a new contest log so initially there are no dupes at all, but anyone using their normal log could recognize dupes and avoid them.
As for roping in new contesters, it depends how you call CQ. A plain CQ doesn't tell anyone you are contesting, while CQ TEST or some variant may discourage some from calling since they likely don't know the contest rules or what would be expected of them in a QSO.
73,Ken, AB1J
 On Monday, April 21, 2025 at 03:15:00 PM UTC, Hank Garretson via groups.io <w6sx.hank=mailto:gmail.com at groups.io> wrote: 

 

How did folks like the transparency between contesters and non-contesters with the daily default exchange?


Yes. Very good.
1. More folk to work
2. Maybe attract non's into contesting. Particularly, for next one, announce and invite on wsjt-x list. 

FT Exuberantly,
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