[PaQSO] newbie with questions

[mkempisty at comcast.net]

Real radios glow in the dark!

GL in the contest.

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Take care, 
Mark N3GNW

P.S. OK solid state transceiver ready, N1MM logger ready, drip coffee maker ready...

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Mark K3MSB <k3msb at hughes.net> 

> mkempisty at comcast.net wrote: 
> 
> "Back in the good ol days when men were men and logging was done with 
> pencil and paper, duplicate contacts were more common." 
> 
> Dino mode enabled.... 
> 
> I started contesting in 1973. Back then US call signs started with K, 
> W, WA and maybe WB. Using the ARRL Dupe sheet, one entered only the 
> suffix annotated by a graphic symbol (hand drawn) to indicate the 
> prefix. For example, a "naked" suffix would indicate a K prefix. An 
> underscored suffix would indicate a W prefix; circled suffix a WA 
> prefix, and a suffix with a square around it a WB prefix. 
> 
> The ARRL dupe sheet would work for causal DX contests. I typically 
> didn't bother with prefixes on the dupe sheet as odds were you wouldn't 
> work two DX stations with the same suffix. If one did, I just noted it 
> on a separate piece of paper and worried about it later (I think..... 
> been a while). You usually didn't have to worry about working 
> stations such as DL1A, TM1A, UA1A etc. Zippy contest calls were very 
> rare back then. 
> 
> The last DX contest that I used paper logging was 1989, and I ended up 
> with 990 (or so) QSO's afer duping. I think I had around 1005 before 
> dupping. I went multi op with a buddy, and we had quite a few 
> sheets stapled together in alphabetical order for dupping. Sheets 
> that covered prefixes with a low probability of working had less space 
> on a page whereas the sheet for G stations (England) had an entire 
> page. The "G" page was then broken down in 10 sections for G0 
> through G9. 
> 
> Ah yes....... the good old days!!! I still have my plastic Oscar 
> Satellite locater in my attic. Two plastic overlay sheets you thumb 
> tacked onto several sheets of paper; one moved in relation to the 
> other for satellite tracking. 
> 
> Dino mode off.... 
> 
> Dang whipper snappers......computer logging, computer keying!! Heck, 
> we even have transceivers today..... now that's a wundermint....... why 
> back in the good old days........... 
> 
> Hope you all enjoy the PA QSO party this year. 
> 
> 73 Mark K3MSB (AD3PA Contest Team) 
> 
> 
> 
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