[WriteLog] FD Dupe Sheet

[Ron St.Laurent ND5S]

I make a habit of working the dupes that reply to my CQ.  As long as the
program marks the dupes (as WriteLog does) they go in with the report and
don't count against you.

If you reply to another station that you "worked B4" and your first contact
with that guy is busted in his log chances are that that contact won't count
in your log and you just chased a legitimate contact away.  If you work him
again one of his contacts will be good in your log with the second marked as
a dupe.  His log will show one good contact and a busted contact.  With
computer logging there is no good reason not to work a dupe . . . and it's
often faster than trying to chase him/her away.

Ron ND5S

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www.qsl.net/nd5s

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Art Searle, W2NRA" <w2nra at birdsandbeacons.com>
To: "arholub" <arholub at ix.netcom.com>; <WriteLog at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] FD Dupe Sheet


> Hi Doc,
>
> Am I missing something here?  I didn't work field day, too many honeydews.
> But in my limited experience with WriteLog with every module I've used it
> prevented duplicates.  Why would you have any dupes?  Am I missing
> something, Doc, or are you guilty of WriteLog malpractice?
>
> 73,
> Art
> W2NRA
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "arholub" <arholub at ix.netcom.com>
> To: <WriteLog at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 8:53 PM
> Subject: [WriteLog] FD Dupe Sheet
>
>
> To get my dupe sheet, opened WriteLog and created a contest report in
"Save
> as ARRL format."  Then opened this file in Microsoft Excel.  It imported
> nicely in separate columns when I just kept following the import wizard.
> Then Sorted by the call sign column.  Then entered the formula
> "if(a2=a1,1,0)" (depending upon which column the call signs are in)in a
new
> column and copied this formula down the entire column.  This gave me a "1"
> in any row that had a dupe and a "0" where no dupe.  Then "saved as" a
msdos
> text file and got a single file of just call signs.  (I didn't remove the
> dupes, but will before I submit it).
>
> Just for info....
>
> Doc
> WA6OGO
>
>
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