[PaQSO] "Rover, you're a dupe"

[TwelveVDC at aol.com]

Have to agree w/Ron. 
Participants only have a year to read the Rules and learn what logging software handles the quirks of the PQP that caused the same headaches last year, and maybe run a test session in the months leading up to October to get familiar with it.

I suggest as soon as you hear, "You're a dup, OM," the next thing out of your mouth is, "QRZ? This is KØBAK/R in <Cty>."
Waste not another moment to work the next guy who knows how to log you again and again. 
-Pete / NL7XM 




> On Oct 16, 2017, at 2:47 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote:
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> It's actually quite simple Pete.
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> Some people believe exactly what their computer logging program.
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> Maybe their program is out of date.
> Maybe it can't handle mobiles or rovers.
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> Maybe it wasn't designed for state QSO parties, at least not the version they're running (see item 1)
> And maybe... they didn't bother to log /M, /R, or /$$$ (county abbreviation) as required by the software to work correctly.
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> 
> They may also be unfamiliar with how QSO parties, this one in particular, work.  So they don't realize that there's no longer a penalty, if there ever was one, for working dupes.  (And who wants to go back to paper logs for hundreds of contacts again, anyway?  Not me!)
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> Of course, some of them are just plain stubborn or set in their ways, and what they think is how they think the world should go.
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> But you know what?  Their failure to log you when you've moved to another county is THEIR loss, and if it costs them a mult, that's THEIR problem.
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> Don't sweat the small stuff.
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> 
> 73, ron W3WN
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete K0BAK via PaQSO <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
> To: PAQSO PARTY <paqso at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Mon, Oct 16, 2017 2:40 pm
> Subject: [PaQSO] rover, you're a dupe
> 
> 
> From: N3WD <n3wd at n3wd.com> 
> To: paqso at mailman.qth.net 
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 6:46 PM 
> Subject: [PaQSO] PAQP - Boy Am I Tired 
> 
>> Special thanks to my XYL for doing ALL the driving through 21 counties.
> 
> I am jealous. My XYL has made it extremely clear has no interest, not now, not after retirement. :-) 
> 
> 
>> I lost count of how many stations would not work me a second time even know I was in different counties.
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> 
> There is nothing that puts me into a near-rage quicker than hearing "you're a dupe". 
> -- First, there's no penalty for dupes anyway, just record the darn contact. 
> -- Second, yes, how can one have a big CQing signal in a QP without understanding the basics of mobiles? 
> -- Third, it takes 4 times longer to go through the ridiculous dialog of "are you in a new county?", "what county are you in now?", "oh OK, so what's your number" .... sheesh, just record the contact in the usual way so we can both get on with the contest!!! 
> 
> -- Pete K0BAK (/R) 
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