[RTTY] FMRE contest rule on dupes

[Jerry Flanders]

During a recent contest, a guy called me and WL told me he was a dupe. I 
went ahead and worked him and was shocked that he gave me serial nr 002. 
Repeat - 002. I checked back in my log and sure enough, he had given me 001 
an hour before. I was the ONLY guy he had worked. Hi.

I have had many guys call me several times. No dupe-checking contest 
software, I presume.

I wish these contest organizers would all adopt the cabrillo system. Looks 
like cabrillo solves a lot of problems, both for them and for us as well. 
This dupe thing, for one.

Jerry W4UK

At 21:59 2/6/04, you wrote:
>I have no clue what "excessive" is to the organizers, however I only log the
>first instance of a dupe - figuring I wasn't in their log the first time, if
>the station calls again I give them the exchange and just don't log it. I
>have the feeling the guys that call multiple times are not submitting logs
>anyway and are just trying to help the cause as it were...
>
>Misguided thinking on my part?
>
>73
>Jon
>K9JS
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jerry Flanders [mailto:jeflanders at comcast.net]
>Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 3:53 PM
>To: rtty at contesting.com
>Subject: [RTTY] FMRE contest rule on dupes
>
>
>Now that I have finally become comfortable working (and re-working, and
>re-working) dupes, The FMRE contest rules state:
>
>"10.- DISQUALIFICATION: For excess duplicate contacts and" ...
>
>Anybody have a clue as to what is "excessive"?
>
>Jerry W4UK