Interesting debate about the uniques - but I would like to encourage people to think about "the other side of the equation". When I see comments like this: I feel like the person is looking at the si
But Tree, why is it bad? The QSOs still have to be made. The exchanges have to be sent and received correctly. Just because one's friends get on to give him, but no one else, a QSO, doesn't necessari
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:29:25 -0700
You seem to be confusing a log checking and scoring process with what will actually happen on the air. Let's say for argument's sake that points from unique QSOs were removed from a log's score in th
If a club was trying to achieve a higher club score - why would all of their members get on and just work one station? They would work other club members and each other AND they would send in a log.
Actually, this is likely to change the way I operate in rare cases. I have been known to solicit Sweepstakes contacts from net control stations, for instance, when they pop up on my run frequency and
I am in complete agreement with this. When I work a rag-chewer in a contest, I do it for the QSO points. But I work few of these, certainly not 10% of my QSO total. Like tree, I would be very suspici
Yes it does. As Tree pointed out - if someone gets 57 of their friends the air work him and only him this is just wrong. I am glad you brought up sweepstakes - I happen to get on in that contest some
I agree with KD4D on this one. If such a rule were put into place I certainly would not go after rag-chewers. It would simply be a waste of time and end up hurting my total. It's a shame, too. I've m
Who has said anything about changing rules for contests to remove uniques???? This discussion started over the one-time special rescoring done for wrtc participants because of suspected irregularitie
It is possible it would, but if the rate is slow and you can talk a guy through an exchange then I do not see how much more it will slow you down to explain to him that he should work a few more stat
Is this a solution in search of a problem? It seems that the WRTC committee dealt with an unusual situation in a creative and appropriate manner. In general, I don't think we want to discourage conte
I agree with Tree that although uniques are a part of every contest there is a limit to reasonableness. We do not want to penalize those who spend time, effort and dollars to build a superior station
It has been discussed for years for several contests - CQ WW DX and SS are the two contests where the idea of removing all unique QSOs has been talke about that I know of personally. The CQ RTTY cont
I don't think that if you go to the trouble of walking someone who is not in the contest through the exchange, it is necessarily your responsibility to get him to go add more scores to other people's
Uniques in SS are unique in a way. It always seems like one does work more uniques in SS than in other contests, especially those long Sunday afternoons. In SS, you have a serial number. If the Uniqu
Hi Jack I know it's a horrible thing to think about, but what is to stop someone from just putting in a bunch of callsigns in their log to make it look like they worked a bunch of uniques. I know no
I've begged and pleaded , especally on Sunday in SS for anyone anywhere for a contact, Its really easy guys just give me your call and I talk you through the exchange. I don't tell them to go works s
No. The object is to get more calls in your log than your competitor does. Mark, N5OT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.c
Author: "Warren C. Stankiewicz" <nf1j@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:31:40 -0700
This was actually tried once in an ARRL contest. I'm not going to say which one it was, or when, or who. However, they worked a large number of uniques. And when this was discovered, we contacted th
Reminds me of a Field Day many years ago (> 30). I recall vividly when a couple of the FD ops in our group just picked another station at random, worked him, then sat and fed him about 15 QSO's using