[RTTY] Dupes how to handle

[Ron Kolarik]

Honor Roll in as many modes as possible......"gotta have it,
gotta have it now".  The new DDXCC is causing some problems
too. HK0NA was plauged with pirates and that may account for
some of the "insurance" contacts.....I never did catch them and
the sun still came up in the morning :)

Ron
K0IDT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at frontier.com>
To: "RTTY" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dupes how to handle


> Hi Larry
> 
> I have always wondered why people want to work the DX'pedition on every 
> available band/slot.
> 
> Say HK0NA makes 50,000 Q's and they all work him 27 times.  That means that 
> only about 1850 stations work them.  Lots of others will be left out.  73
> 
> Tom W7WHY
> 
> 
> Some of this duplicate QSO stuff is not limited to contests. I heard
> several occasions during the recent HK0NA expedition, for example,
> where the same stations were worked more than three times in less than
> half an hour on the same band/mode slot. I noticed the same behavior
> several times from a few stations last year when I operated from XV.
> 
> Personally, I just work the dupe as it is usually faster than trying to
> explain
> a dupe. I have never had to resort to what I heard HK0NA do a few times:
> "xxxxxx YOU ARE IN THE LOG".
> 
> 73, Larry  W6NWS