[RTTY] Sent dupe serial numbers

Curt Nixon cptcurt at flash.net
Mon Feb 16 13:30:57 EST 2009


Thanks Susan--

Interesting coincidence--I just posted to the writelog reflector 
concerning your call!  my logger listed it as Desecheo Is!! 

It had the  us W% area correct but the K5D part got it all a-twitter I 
guess:)

Anyway--neat story, thanks.

Worked you early on Friday nite on 40.

Curt
KU8L



Susan King wrote:
> Oh dear.
> The first WPX contest I was in was 1982 CW WPX. I had just received the call
> KU2Q and had never heard of WPX. That first weekend I got on CW with my
> brand new call and sent a CQ. Someone came back to me and told me about the
> contest. Then millions of people kept calling me. I was swamped. I sent 599
> 005 to about 100 people  because a five was easy to send.
>
> I don't feel guilty. You shouldn't either.
>
> Good luck and have fun with RTTY.
> Susan K5DU
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Curt Nixon <cptcurt at flash.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Newbie question here:
>>
>> Twice during the wpx contest, being new to the run sequence, I got
>> fast-finger and entered the next call without hitting enter for the
>> previous qso in the entry window.  Realized it right after but had
>> already sent the same serial number to two conssecutive qso's.
>>
>> I'm sure this has happened a couple of times before to others. :)
>>
>> I quickly re-entered the first qso with the next serial number in the
>> log but noted that the actual serial number I sent was different.
>>
>> How should I handle this when submitting?
>>
>> Do I just show the actual sent exchange numbers and not worry about it?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Curt
>>
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