1) unique contacts i find throwing out unique contacts not a good thing, I'm sure all of us hard core contest types have done an Oceania dx contest as 3D2/W7DRA or some other dx venture and found guy
I'm not sure if this was an attempt to lump the removal of uniques in with log checking in general... To me there's a big difference. Most log checking that I have "endured" assumes one is innocent (
Hi, Justified throwing out is OK. There are grey and nearly black decisions regarding determining QSO that is kind-of unique to bad call. I have suffered injustice in my last CQWW effort so a QSO was
Unless you are rare DX, it is exceedingly difficult to work a "unique" station in the CQWW contest (probably most other contests). Over the last two decades, I have (first-hand) investigated hundreds
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
With all due respect, uniques may be busted calls if you are a QRPer, but for the "get down on your knees begging" SSBer in a contest, especially a big gun near the end of the contest, I don't think
Unique contacts may be rare to some operators, but through the decades of contesting there have been numerous occasions when I've worked dozens, even hundreds of unique contacts in a row. Back in the
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
Bill, With all due respect to you, some of us sometime QRP operators do have good receivers and can copy calls as wellas a big gun. As a sometimes QRP operator, I sometimes do also get legit unique c
In a message dated 9/11/03 4:59:43 PM Greenwich Standard Time, k5iid@earthlink.net writes: With all due respect to you, some of us sometime QRP operators do have good receivers and can copy calls as
There are lots of things that can get m/m's and others unique calls... 1. checking into the ve1/2/3 sunday morning nets during cqww ssb on 75m 2. calling cq on a relatively dead band and chatting wit
Interesting reading all the posts and thoughts on the unique QSO business. One thought comes to mind.. Doesn't it strike anyone as a bit strange to delete uniques as a rule rather than an exception?
It doesn't matter if you're a big gun or a QRPer unique calls will be logged. What does being a QRPer have to do with it anyway? At least I know where I stand, but to let you know we QRPers have rece
Thomas Horton wrote: With all due respect to you, some of us sometime QRP operators do have good receivers and can copy calls as wellas a big gun. As a sometimes QRP operator, I sometimes do also get
In this situation wouldn't the polite thing to do be sending in a check log? I have done this in the past. At 09:21 AM 9/11/03, Zack Widup wrote: Last year I started into a contest (I forget which on
I think he was referring to the receiver of the guy trying to hear the QRP signal. Of course, a QRP station is going to hear a station running 1 kW + tons of aluminum in the air, and hear him well. T
For working a handful of stations? Those of us OFs who log with paper and pencil then have to figure out the format that the contest organizers want, where to send it, by when, all that stuff. No wa
Exactly. And if I may add another that I have used from Ascension from time-to-time: World Scouting Jamboree On The Air appears to occur annually the weekend just before CQ WW SSB, and many very nice
_________________________________________________________ If I was a log checker, I'd ignore uniques UNLESS it made a difference in the standings, and then only if it was for #1 vs #2. In that case,
Derek, I suspect that if you worked HC8N, or for that matter any one station, 6 times in a contest, it would be an indication that you are not a unique. Although for the purposes of this discussion,