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by KG6MZS on November 2, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I'm a casual DXer with a little station. Over the weekend I had an experience that gave me pause. It wasn't a contest but just a Asiatic Russian station calling an unqualified CQ on 20m BPSK-31. I had worked this guy about a year ago on 20m and on 40m so I decided to give him a shout and a signal report. He comes back: "We've worked on this band. QRZ?" I thought it was rude but then I got to thinking - do DX stations really not want to work stations more than once per band? I don't call DX stations every time I hear them. I like to work them once a year or so per band. Is this somehow not cool among the DX hardcore? Kinda put a damper on my weekend that was otherwise pretty good DX. TIA 73 de Eric, KG6MZS

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by W2IRT on November 2, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
In my experience there are a few ops who only want one QSO on any band/mode combination. I just don't let it bother me. There's a T7 who's the same way and D4C was very specific about that, too a few years ago. Just send a 73 TU and put a note in your log so you don't work him again next year. Even in a contest setting it doesn't make any sense to not work work a dupe. It takes longer to send "QSO B4" than "TU" (even more-so on SSB). Of course, there's a chance the caller may still log the QSO and the guy running won't, resulting in the run station actually losing points when the UBN reports come out rather than just logging a legit zero-point QSO.

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by WZ9O on November 2, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
You always log it and turn in a dupe sheet so you don’t lose points.

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by AB3CX on November 2, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
The bad thing about this from my perspective is that it may be in his log, but not in mine. Could happen, particularly if the tail end of a QSO was blasted by QRM, or QSB took out the confirmation, how are you supposed to QSL in that case?

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by KG6MZS on November 2, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
W2IRT Wrote: >>>Just send a 73 TU and put a note in your log so you don't work him again next year. <<< Well, since he already called "QRZ?" I didn't respond at all. I did make a note not to work him again. I didn't call him until he had made several unanswered CQs and I did notice that nobody came back to him after he was done with me, so it wasn't like there was a big pile-up or anything. I think he was being foolish. I put out a pretty good signal and even a brief QSO with me might've attracted some other stations. Oh well. Good advice not let it get under my skin. 73 de Eric, KG6MZS

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by N3QE on November 2, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Don't let that put you off. If he came back that quick maybe there wasn't a real person there anyway and it was just some sort of robo-station stuck in contest mode. Or maybe it was a real person stuck in contest mode :-(. I like 40M in the early mornings to Australia and New Zealand, and it is extremely common for me to QSO someone not for the first or second time but for the twentieth time. We know each others names, we talk about the band or the last contest or the next contest, and move over it all in a friendly way in just a few minutes. Because, after all, I'll chat with him the next week, and the week after that, etc.

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by N3OX on November 2, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
That sounds self-important and unfriendly, and is atypical. There have been plenty of DX stations vastly rarer than UA0/9 that would be happy to hear you again. 73 Dan

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by KA3NRX on November 2, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Never really thought about this because I never really had this problem. I can honestly say that every dx I have worked more than once has not been like this, and we have had many a qso. Not a one that I can remember has blown off my calling. I guess you will have that occasionally. But you will find that 99% of the DXers out there, in any part of the world, will be very glad to work you again. What happend to you is more than likely a rarity. Vince P KA3NRX

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by VQ9LA on November 8, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
If you dupe on a band like 160mtrs you may take a QSO away from someone who really needs the contact. Some openings to certain parts of the world may be 2 minutes or less on the topband and only come around once a year. It is not fun to pull someone out of the mud in a pileup and find out that you worked him last week for the 30th time that year. QRP, mobiles, and small antenna hams may also miss out on a contact on the higher bands with hams that dupe. 1 or 2 times per year is more then enough. There are some hams that want the security QSO and that is fine. But is it really necessary to dupe a rare or semi rare station in a big pileup for the 30th time that year? It is fine if no one is calling but please use some sense if there is a big pileup. Most hams do not dupe big pileups but there are others that do not. The big pileup may become smaller without the dupes and the weak guys may have a chance for a new one. 73 VQ9LA Larry Arneson Diego Garcia Britsh Indian Ocean Territory

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by N0HR on November 8, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Another consideration is same call, different operator. That is, consider a scenario where the call once belonged to a ham (now SK). Later, a new ham picks up that callsign (vanity system or otherwise). The new ham hasn't worked that DX on that band... I agree - that's a rude response.

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