[RTTY] Dupes how to handle

[trevor dunne]

Sorry I missed you Alejandro, I had some very big pile ups on 15m, It made me feel like a DX station at times. I struggle to get a decode when there is lots of stations calling, I guess everyone does,
 
Two items that bugged me during the contest when I was runnig were
 
1. Stations calling very much off my freq, I use a Icom 756 pro2 in FSK/RTTY mode, with the filter at 250hz and some stations were over 100hz off from me. It was a constant job adjusting the RIT to tune in some stations.
 
2. When 2 or 3 stations call, I would stack there calls in N1MM so that once I finished with the 1st I would go WXXX TU NOW KXXX ur 599 XXXX XXXX and so on, but the amount of times the 2nd station didn't respond, I guess EI2 was not rare enough to hang around 20 seconds for,
 
I had no problems with QRM as the Filters are very sharp on the Pro. Have to say that N1MM is a great tool this was my 2nd big contest with it and I have still a lot to learn but I can't see myself ever trying to do ASFK again.

Thanks
Trevor
EI2GLB


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From: Alejandro V. XE1EE <xe1ee at telmexmail.com>
To: trevor dunne <trevor_dunne at yahoo.com>; RTTY-reflektorn <rtty at contesting.com> 
Sent: Monday, 13 February 2012, 22:33
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dupes how to handle

Hello Trevor

Well, I have a macro who checks the call against the current contest log, if it is a dupe sends Call QSO B4 XE1EE QRZ, if not just sends the serial number and I keep going, I never work dupes.

By the way..  you where here 5/9 (on 15 meters) and never heard me :( and I was running 300 watts.

Here's the macro I use (on Writelog)

%R%C %BQSO B4%RXE1EE QRZ%E%B 599 %N3 %N3%E

73!

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From: "trevor dunne" <trevor_dunne at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:02 AM
To: "RTTY-reflektorn" <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: [RTTY] Dupes how to handle

> 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
> 
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