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K3TN

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Re: Contest etiquette for non-competitors
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2021, 03:25:41 AM »

Very few, if any, contests will remove a QSO from a log because a QSO worked sent the same serial number to every station. The exchange is only checked when both stations send in logs, so in your case the software has nothing to compare against, in any event. The software does not check to see if multiple stations were sent the same serial number.

An example: I've worked many serial number contests where the casual op didn't know it required a SN and they sent their zone. I log what I hear - I logged 5 or 8 or 28 or whatever, because they sent 599 28, etc. I'm sure they did that to every station they worked - and I've never seen a Log Checking Report remove that QSO from the log.

There are a few contests that only give QSO credit if the worked station sends in a log and if you did send in a log and the contest rules required "consecutive serial number" then your log might be thrown out but since you are not sending in logs that wouldn't matter. I don't think that even those contests would penalize the ops you worked.

If sending 001 all the time gets you to make more contests QSOs, then feel free to call in when you hear me calling CQ.

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Re: Contest etiquette for non-competitors
« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2021, 05:04:48 PM »

And I sort of go the "other" way.  If I am serious enough to want to make 5 or 10 contacts in a contest, I will open a log in my N1MM Logger+ application.  This gives me all the contest templates, serial numbers, log file creation, etc., that the big gun contesters use, and the software is free.  You don't even have to connect it to your rig.  I do, because I more seriously enjoy a couple of contests, even though I will never win one with my simple station.  I just enjoy the excitement. . . sometimes.

When the contest ends, I can either submit my log as a competitive entry, or in some cases, just as a "check log" to be used to validate the points the more serious competitors have claimed for contacts with me.

After the contest, I just import the contest log into my general/official station logging program (which is N3FJP's Amateur Contact Log).
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Re: Contest etiquette for non-competitors
« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2021, 05:34:07 PM »

This is a common problem.  I often get duped by very low serial number stations because they not only don't know the numbers, they haven't remembered or written down who they called.

If you work 5 - 10 guys and then do it again and again a few times during the weekend, just start with 1, then the next time you sit down start with 25, then 50, then 75.  That way no one gets a duplicate number. And since you are not submitting a log anyway, who cares if they are totally sequential.

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