[UK-CONTEST] AFS Contest Logs - Duplicate Indication question

[Steve Knowles]

Jim (et al)

Dupes should be left in the log.  This is important because if the original 
QSO is flawed, the dupe comes into play and you can still score.  There are 
no penalties for dupes / busted calls in RSGB contests (other than the loss 
of the dupe/busted QSO) and the checking will throw up the dups - there are 
no facilities in the Cabrillo log formats for comments in any case!

73

Steve


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G3VDB (Jim)" <jimevans at g3vdb.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:27 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] AFS Contest Logs - Duplicate Indication question


> Hello all,
>
> Is it required to indicate duplicates in the log or merely to remove them
> from the claimed score (and perhaps comment on them in Soapbox). If
> indication is required is it an additional column at the end and must all
> lines have this field?
> ___________
>
> Thanks to all for the fun on Sunday - only my second semi "serious" 
> attempt
> at CW contesting.
>
> Did 3.5 hours out of the 4 taking a lunch break at request of xyl after
> first 40mins (!). Came back and immediately duplicated G3MEM and G3UFY to
> whom much grovelling apologies. I discovered that the software I was using
> has an unreliable duplicate indication - some others had to tell me "QSO 
> B4"
> before I realised what was going on. A bit finger of trouble on at least 
> one
> other occasion ended up with someone getting a random 599nnn instead of a
> callsign - hopefully it can only get better!
>
> Ended up with brain ache and 122 + the 2 dups, all but two by S&P, at 
> which
> point I decided that my CW and typing is not yet up to responding to the
> first call after a CQ!.
>
> Now I need to change software to something more conventional, and get the
> courage to try a bit of running.
>
> Regards and see you in the CW (and data) CC's
>
> Jim
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