Alan:
Your concern about "insurance contacts" is groundless. There were lots
of dupes in the K5K logs---we neither encouraged nor discouraged them.
If someone called us who was already in the log, we logged them and kept
going. Arguing with someone over a dupe, whether in a contest or
DXpedition situation, is a waste of time. Originally, we sought to avoid
CQWW due to the high probability of dupes and the taboo against split
operation, but everyone was in it for one reason or another, so we went
there also---and duped a lot more people.
I don't know what happened with Shelby on 80. Perhaps the operator came
back to him but never heard his reply in the noise. That failure to
complete happened to me at least once on RTTY, and, try as I did, I
could not complete the Q, and it did not go in the log. The caller
thought it had and did not call again---he came up empty and that was
that. There does have to be an exchange---this is not SWLing.
And, yes, it has happened to me, as it has happened to nearly all of us,
and the low bands are the most likely place for that to happen. A few
seasons ago, I received 3 NIL's back-to-back on 160; I'll get them next
time. Unfortunately, "next time" at Kingman is unlikely---but you never
know.
73,
Garry, NI6T
Co-leader, Kingman Reef 2000
"Alan C. Zack" wrote:
>
> I hope they are not holding it against people who appear to have made
> insurance contacts. I managed to work them prior to the CQWWDX Contest, then
> on my entering the contest I heard them calling CQ Contest and worked them
> again on a couple of bands for the contest mults and points, so I had other
> motives other than an insurance contact.
>
> Shelby Summerville wrote:
> >
> > Received today! :) #319 mixed....#212 RTTY
> > I don't make it a habit of working "insurance" contacts, instead relying
> > that if/when I hear/see my call, it will be in the log, All contacts with
> > K5K were confirmed except 80 CW. What an
> > "empty feeling" to receive "NOT IN LOG" for that one! Judging from the time
> > I "thought" that I worked them, I would still have had plenty to try again.
> > Life goes on...and just grateful to all of those that made even one contact
> > with K5K possible.
> > C'Ya, Shelby
> >
> > DX: Long may it live !
>
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