On Nov 30, 2006, at 6:24 PM, K1TTT wrote:
> They are old school contesters who used to worry about the number
> of dupes
> in the log because they misunderstood the disqualification
> statements in the
> rules that said 'too many UNCLAIMED dupes is grounds for
> disqualification'
> (paraphrased and emphasized by me). Even in the old days of paper
> logs you
> didn't get dq'ed for too many dupes, you got dq'ed if you didn't
> properly
> score them as zero points. But the misconception lives on, and on,
> and on.
> By not working you 'again' that station loses 3 times your point
> value if
> you submit your log.
>
> What they really don't understand is that there is NO penalty for
> dupes in a
> computerized logs... you don't even have to mark them as zero
> points because
> the log checking computer does that for you when they rescore your
> log.
I'm not sure I understand - all the contest log software I've used
except one won't allow me to enter a dupe at all. Perhaps that is one
of the reasons why people don't want to work dupes?
-73 de Mike KB3EIA -
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