[RTTY] Dupes how to handle

[iw1ayd]

I strongly agree with the idea of Bill W6WRT for the S&P DUPEs, TU Bill 
as usual. I will C&P your macro text inside mine macro set:

{TX}{ENTERLF}NOT IN LOG{ENTERLF}PLEASE WORK ME AGAIN {MYCALL} {MYCALL} 
{RX}(CRLF}

This will stay together with those macros that arent't ESMed and not 
often used. But stronly needed as to courteous and polite but firm or 
committed. Well it is not short, I see, but it is a start point. But in 
S&P I wouldn't like to loose a multiplier. Do you agree Bill?

But let my say: in RUN I work DUPEs as any newest, no matter. Any 
contact is worth of it, for sure.
By any mean I haven't any B4 macro. I get rid of that contacts clobber 
years ago. BTW I am on HF RTTY almost since than, ~ 2008.

In the latter WPX we had 50 DUPEs as short of 1.26%, so it rougly may 
have required 50 X 30" = 25 minutes to work on in the worst case. Well, 
sometimes the rate went much better! That is, a sliced window 25 minutes 
of the WPX went used to work out DUPEs, not bad, but also no way to 
change. As, let me say, 10 of those may have been multipliers ... worth 
of it.

Drilling this more deeply, somebody may argue that the lost time was not 
a mere 25 minutes set of slots, has we have had already a contact with 
all those peoples. This will mean in turn that we loose not 25' but two 
time that sum of intervals: 50 minutes! I wouldn't say anything about, 
just academically mumbling on it.

Well, my guess is that those are the things and we have to match on it: 
do the DUPEs work, as fast as you can.
Figures may be a lot better, smaller waste, as anybody could say, after 
all I considered a rough number for the lenght of the QSO, that could be 
a little bit shorter.

As, may be Don AA6AU wrote sometimes ago, any contact with any station 
is worth of it. We enjoyed a lot of 001 at every time in the contest. 
(At least we all are there for that!) That was a big pleasure, from the 
several points of view that Don already have make clear much better than me.


                                     73 de iw1ayd Salvo