[RTTY] QSO B4

[Don Cassel]

Mike,

I'm with you. I generally respond with QSO B4 and then manually give the
time of the Q. Most usually accept that and when I'm on the other end of
that exchange can usually determine what I did wrong. Sometimes the other
guy comes back and then I will record another contact and mark the first one
as unclaimed (in Writelog). 

I don't know about Cabrillo but it is up to the log checkers to figure out
dups. Cabrillo is just a recording mechanism. 

73, Don VE3XD

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of W0YR at aol.com
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 7:32 PM
To: k4sb at bellsouth.net; rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] QSO B4

Can someone please explain how the mighty Cabrillo can figure out which of
two QSOs with another station is the one to discard?  

Just trusting Cabrillo to get it right is like trusting CBS.

I worked KM4M on 20 and they called me later and tried to work me again.  I
gave them the time I'd work them and sure enough, later got a message that
they'd inadvertantly left the /4 off my call when logging.  (That tells me
someone was MANUALLY entering callsigns !!!! ??? a great source of errors.)


Until it can be proven that Cabrillo never screws up, I prefer to tell the
other station it's a dupe and work them AGAIN as an insurance contact.  

Let's see some REAL LIFE examples of Cabrillo getting it right.  Anyone got
any?

73

Mike
W0YR/4
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