[RTTY] Dupes how to handle

[James C. Hall, MD]

This is really hard to take sometimes. I had a dupe rate of 1.7% - in this
day and age of computer logging, this seems WAY too high. There was one K4
who was about to get on my last nerve who was a dupe TWICE on one band ! And
I took the time to type him and tell him he was a dupe AGAIN ! One G3 was
quite apologetic about being a dupe and others figured it out but only after
I called them and they disappeared. If more than one is calling and one is a
dupe, I try to ignore them, but if they're persistent, I go ahead and work
them - they may have gotten, or I may have gotten, a call wrong the first
time.

73, Jamie
WB4YDL

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Turner
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:27 AM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dupes how to handle

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

On 2/12/2012 8:02 AM, trevor dunne wrote:
> Whats the correct procedure to handle dupe in any contest but mainly 
> WPX RTTY I have a few QSO's that I thought were good but the other 
> station called me again and when I said QSO B4, I wasn't in there log, Do
I just delete the first bad QSO and log the 2nd one ???
> How does that affect my serial number count as there will be missing QSO's
in the log ???
>
>
> Thanks
> Trevor
> EI2GLB

REPLY:

When a dupe calls you, the best approach is to completely ignore the fact he
is a dupe and work him normally. Don't delete the previous QSO, don't try to
alter serial numbers, etc, etc. Modern log checking software (Cabrillo) will
find the dupe, ignore it and give you full credit. I always end up giving
out higher serial numbers than I have valid QSOs. In the just competerd WPX
i had 13 dupes in the log. Doesn't matter at all.

I have a macro I use when someone sends me the B4 message:

NOT IN LOG
PLEASE WORK ME AGAIN W6WRT W6WRT

Works like a charm.

73, Bill W6WRT

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