[SECC] A funny thing happened in the GQP

[Bill Coleman]

On Apr 15, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Chaz Cone <chaz at w4gkf.com> wrote:

> I was on 20m phone calling CQ and worked a fellow in Missouri.  An hour later he called again and I told him that we’d already worked on 20m.  He chided me saying that now he was mobile in a different county in Missouri and would count again on this band.  i tried to explain that the rover concept only applied to GA stations, and that we would only get credit once per band. He assured me that I was mistaken.
> 
> An hour later he called me again and, when I told him we’d already worked, he said that he knew that but that now he was in a different Missouri county.  He said he was traveling throughout Missouri all day Saturday and Sunday to participate as a rover in the GQP.
> 
> Nothing I said would disabuse him of that notion.  He called me several more times during the weekend.  Hope he did well…

The lesson here is to never argue with a station about whether you have worked before. Just work them, log them and move one. There is NO contest that takes off points for duplicate contacts.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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