Some may call these contacts Spoonfed, I've done it for years and always
refered to the procedure as Milking the Band. U don't have to be in the
Contest All contacts give me points, Please Call K7QQ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zack Widup" <w9sz@prairienet.org>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 14:21
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] unique contacts and logging errors
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 KH6DV@cs.com wrote:
>
> > There has been a lot of interesting posts related to this thread. The
last
> > one by Doug KR2Q got my attention. Doug said something I just have to
agree
> > with, if you cant prove that the contact did not take place it should
not be
> > removed from the log.
> > The reason I agree with this is simply because I think unique contacts
happen
> > more often then Doug does. Doug states earlier in his posting that
uniques
> > are actually rare. He goes on to allow for the fact that this may not be
true
> > in the case of a rare dx station. We all know how a rare location can
pump up a
> > contest log with 1000's
> > of non contest entrant pursuers. As a non rare (and almost a non dx) Dx
> > station I have to disagree with Doug on this one. There are exceptions
to Doug's
> > rule other than for rare dx. The 10 meter band comes to mind as one.
>
> Last year I started into a contest (I forget which one now) and just
> couldn't get into it. Conditions weren't good. I worked two stations and
> gave up.
>
> If one of them doesn't send in a log, the other gets a unique. If one
> busts my call, we have two uniques (possibly).
>
> There have been other contests where I worked only two or three stations.
> I'm sure others have done this also.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
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