[WriteLog] 1 MORE TIME, which qso counts?

[ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx]

I've worked dupes in CQWW and not seen them on the
penalty list.  This is a non-issue.  73, Byron

Not everyone missed the point.

At 09:59 AM 8/8/2001 -0400, Kurszewski Chad-WCK005 wrote:
>> Everyone is missing the point.
>> I DON'T CARE about whether I should work dupes or tell them B4.
>> I DON'T CARE that Cabrillo doesn't have a score included.
>> I DON'T CARE that the score checkers will process the log and compute a
>> score.
>> I'm probably not going to submit it anyway.
>> 
>> I JUST WANT TO KNOW that if I work a dupe, and seeing as how WL has the
>> option to not count one qso in a log and to give the credit to the second
>> qso, if I'm theoretically correct in 'discrediting' the first qso and
>> 'crediting' the second.
>> 
>> My logic says that if I wasn't in the other guys log, then one of us made
>> a
>> mistake and it was a 'no qso'. Obviously the second contact was a qso.
>> 
>> 
>I believe that everyone might be missing something here,
>except for maybe Bill.
>
>Let's say that we THOUGHT we worked him the first time,
>but instead he was working someone else with perfect timing.
>(someone we couldn't hear, also using our freq)
>I later log him when he definitely calls me.
>
>The problem with the first QSO is, yes it will be caught by
>the log checkers, but if it's a NIL, we not only lose that
>QSO but 3 additional QSOs (if CQWW, etc).  So, if we leave
>that first QSO in, we could lose 4.  If we do not submit
>it ("Mark QSO as Unclaimed"), we save ourselves a 4 QSO loss.
>The bad news is that if it really was a legitimate dupe,
>the other station will get a NIL (and 3 penalty QSOs).
>
>If he is duping us, don't you think it's for a reason?
>Like, we're not in his log (correctly) the first time?
>By taking the 1st one out, we are saving ourselves 4 QSOs.