[PaQSO] What's all the fuss about DUPES, anyway?

[Tom Mills]

Anyone logging me make sure you notate I was mobile in JUN mobile whole time

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> On Oct 13, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> I agree.
> 
> At worst, if you tell someone that they're a dupe & they disagree with you, don't waste time arguing, log them and move on.  If for no other reason, it implies that one of the two of you made a typo of some sort during the logging process.  
> 
> But not always.
> 
> Many, many moons ago, under my prior call, I remember calling an 8 station, very early in the contest (within my first 15 minutes QRV) who insisted that I was a dupe.  Simply wasn't possible, but he insisted -- even berated me a bit on the air.  So I didn't argue with him any further & moved on.  Sometime later that afternoon, he caught up to me and apologized -- it seems that his logging program at the time wasn't set to show a "WN3" prefix as valid, so it flagged me as a dupe instead!  
> 
> Stuff happens.
> 
> 73, ron w3wn
> 
> On 10/13/14, Hank Greeb wrote:
> 
> I usually don't comment in another state's party e-mail list.
> 
> BUT, logging dupes SHOULD BE DONE! 
> 
> < snip >72/73 de n8xx 
> QRP >99.44% of the times
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