[RTTY] Dupes how to handle

[Alejandro V. XE1EE]

OK From now on.. no more QSL B4 to be sent, it's always great to learn 
something new here. 73!

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From: "iw1ayd" <iw1ayd at googlemail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 6:25 AM
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Dupes how to handle

>
> 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
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