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From: KJ6HO@aol.com (KJ6HO@aol.com)
Date: Fri Sep 22 00:44:14 1995
ZF2JI will be active in the cqww ssb test on all bands..qsl via KG6AR
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>From James White <0006492564@mcimail.com>  Fri Sep 22 05:22:00 1995
From: James White <0006492564@mcimail.com> (James White)
Subject: Unique is not a bad word
Message-ID: <93950922042239/0006492564PK5EM@MCIMAIL.COM>


OK you've sweat all Summer long to build that ultimate contesting station,
climbing the hill to the station, battling with wrestling yagis, working on
the computer software and the rig RX mods and all those things to make your
station nothing short of kickass!

The contest committee removes QSOs from your log that were uniques.
      
Turns out those lost contacts were from DX stations who were so impressed
with your loud signal at the bottom of the cycle that they called YOU - they
could hear YOU 'cuz had you worked harder to build your super contest
station ... YOU pushed the envelope by building a better station. The other
stations weren't quite as good as yours but YOU are penalized for being able
to make an impression on that DX contact that the also rans didn't.

I'd be pissed. Especially if it were a station on a remote Georgia hilltop
that I'd been building all Summer!

Busted calls are bad! Uniques are NOT proof of busted calls but CAN be a
smoking gun. If a log has a higher rate of uniques it is probably in need of
a closer look. Do not automatically penalize and condemn someone who found
an opportunity we all want - being the damn loudest signal into a population
center on the other side of the globe when our competition was not! 

If you built the station to take advantage of a unique propagation
opportunity and did, and the other guys were on the wrong band and missed
out, heah - I thought this was why it was rewarding to build that station
and study operating and propagation!



                             zx

                                            k1zx@mcimail.com


>From Gary Schwartz <garyk9gs@solaria.sol.net>  Fri Sep 22 05:27:12 1995
From: Gary Schwartz <garyk9gs@solaria.sol.net> (Gary Schwartz)
Subject: Carribean trips still on??
Message-ID: <Pine.3.02.9509212312.A17431-a100000@solaria.sol.net>

With all the hurricane activity in the Carribean this season I haven't
heard much about the status of CONTEST expeditions for the CQWW contests.
Are we going to have an even lower number of mults available this season?

Might be a good time to update the Contest DX-Pedition Registry...

73,
Gary K9GS

         ________________________________________________________________
        |                                                                |
        | Gary Schwartz  K9GS           E-Mail: garyk9gs@solaria.sol.net |
        | Society of Midwest Contesters   Packet:K9GS@WA9KEC.WI.USA.NOAM |
        | Greater Milwaukee DX Association Secretary/Treasurer           |
        |________________________________________________________________|






>From Ray Rocker <rocker@datasync.com>  Fri Sep 22 06:11:06 1995
From: Ray Rocker <rocker@datasync.com> (Ray Rocker)
Subject: Unique calls in log
Message-ID: <199509220511.AAA08684@osh1.datasync.com>


Hmmm. One doesn't have to be a big gun to get unique calls, either.
Just being in a rare state or having a rare prefix can do it too. 
Lots of WAS and WPX chasers out there, especially on phone. Not at all
uncommon for me to get REAL low serial #s in WPX, SS, etc. well into 
contest, and they're usually followed up by QSL card saying "need ur QSL
for {WAS | WPX | USA-CA | whatever}". 

Big gun contest DXpeditions probably get tons of those.

-- 
Ray Rocker ... WQ5L               |  "Life would be much easier if we could
Long Beach, Mississippi, USA      |   just look at the source code." - fortune
rocker@datasync.com               |  Yes, I do speak for my employer.
http://www.datasync.com/~rocker   |  Go Saints! Make it 13-3! (yeah, right)

>From Kari Lehtimaki <kle@olivetti.fi>  Fri Sep 22 07:07:39 1995
From: Kari Lehtimaki <kle@olivetti.fi> (Kari Lehtimaki)
Subject: SAC SSB comments needed
Message-ID: <9509220902.aa15715@trixie.olivetti.fi>


        I am posting this for our finnish contest manager 
        Ari Korhonen OH1EH.

        Ari will be writing an article of SAC contest in his
        next column. He is looking for any comments on the
        SAC contest (coming outside of Scandianavian).

        There are three topics:

        1. Motivation to participate.
           Why do you (dis)like the contest?

        2. Band openings during the contest.
           Propagation on 40 and 80 meters especially. Who was loud and when?

        3. Post contest comments.
           Feelings on Sunday at 1800 UTC.

        Replies should be sent to:
        kle@olivetti.fi

        On the behalf of Ari,

        Best 73's,
        Kari, OH6LK.




>From N7AVK <lew@teleport.com>  Fri Sep 22 07:48:25 1995
From: N7AVK <lew@teleport.com> (N7AVK)
Subject: Uniques
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950921225330.7597A-100000@linda.teleport.com>

  Two obvious situations come to mind when discussing disallowing unique 
calls in a contest log. 
    1:I run a full size 3 element beam each on 40M & 80M. My QTH is in RF 
free Zone 3...which means to obtain any serious number of Q's I have to work 
every JA possible... which I try to do. I receive hundreds of JA cards 
each season. Many of them note that I am the only Q that they made on 
that band as they request a QSL confirmation. To disallow these unique 
calls negates my efforts to build a serious station where I can receive 
these weak signals that are non-copyable elsewhere. I wish to keep that 
competitive edge.  To remove the uniques, is tantamount to saying "Lets 
level the playing field.. lets take those Q's away.. lets all run the 
same antennae, radios. etc. etc. to make it a real contest!"
     This strikes at the heart of "Why do we contest?" We all can't be 
perched east of the Hudson River. We all can't  run monobanders. We all 
can't have the latest whiz-bang RF Box or computers. We all can't go to 
equatorial warm places  to contest.... in short we all can't be #1. So 
why do we contest?  I think because its fun. Sure its work.. but its an 
area where we can define how we're going to compete, when we're going to 
compete and to what importance we're going to attach to the competition.
If someone is going to attempt to disallow a whisper quiet Q I made with 
a rookie JA op running 0.1 watt to his rain gutter... then they are 
messing with my fun... and I will object.
    2: Since there are significant "lulls" in the action here in RF free 
Zone 3 due to the lack of sun activity, I will ask stations I hear 
kibbitzing if they will exchange the contest exchange with me. Some 
respond with eloquent condemnation of contesters in general and me in 
particular. Most respond favorably and they go into my log. Perhaps to be 
a unique, perhaps to become curious and seek out other Q's or perhaps to 
tell their friends about our contest Q and pique their interest.
    Again I don't believe it fair to take away these Q's. They are worked 
for... they are fun...and they keep an operator awake.
   Great thread... but my opinion is set on this one. Put my log through 
the tightest scrutiny as the next contester... but don't uniformly 
disallow unique Q's.  T'aint fair to the contesting spirit.
    73 and I remain,         Lew

         Lew  Sayre   N7AVK               lew@teleport.com
         P.O.Box  3110                    Fax 503-391-2258
         Salem, Oregon 97302              160M thru 1296MHz



>From John C. Goller" <0007490835@mcimail.com  Fri Sep 22 08:05:00 1995
From: John C. Goller" <0007490835@mcimail.com (John C. Goller)
Subject: CQWW Scoring
Message-ID: <05950922070550/0007490835PJ1EM@MCIMAIL.COM>

After reading my "Low Band Monitor" Editorial re: CQWW SCORING SYSTEM
I think it really makes a lot of sense! It gives POINTS for DX! DX being
defined as Distance! Hope the CQ-Contest committee reads it and does it!
You guys on the East Coast are going to SCREAM when you read this one!
73 de JOHN K9UWA
k9uwa@mcimail.com


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