Hi Jon, Thanks for posting this. I agree 100%. When condx are spotty - QSB, etc. - it's so much more efficient to just assume they copied my call incorrectly the first time, and work them again. I know I was a DUPE at least twice in this contest. Once, I wasn't paying attention, and once I fat-fingered the call the second time around. The ones that puzzle me though, are the loud stations that call me, I log the Q, and then the station calls me again 2 minutes later. Odd!! Jim - WS6X
On Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 12:22 PM Jon Zaimes, AA1K via Topband < [email protected]> wrote: > Sometime during the second night of this weekend's CQ 160 meter CW > contest, I answered a W station that was calling CQ. They came back with > "dupe" though they were not in my log. I said "no" and sent a report. > They came back with "already worked" and didn't send me a report. > I repeated "not in log" and sent a report. They came back with a time that > I was apparently in their log. But they were not in my log. > Since it was a slow period I persisted and they finally sent me a report. > But this fellow wasted far more of both of our time than if he had just > worked me when I called. There is no penalty for working a dupe -- the log > checkers just ignore duplicates. > Had I not persisted, however, this W station would have been penalized > since his alleged QSO was not in my log. > So folks, if someone calls you and you think it is a dupe, just work 'em > again. They may have actually been working someone else, or flubbed entry > on the keyboard of your callsign. Just log it a second time if you think it > is a dupe. > > > 73/Jon > > Jon P. Zaimes, AA1K > > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
