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Re: [CQ-Contest] zero pointers etc

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] zero pointers etc
From: Doug Smith W9WI <w9wi@earthlink.net>
Date: 29 Nov 2005 09:40:47 -0600
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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 05:46, Rick Dougherty wrote:
> Our average run rate for the entire station is 110 qso's per hour for the 
> total 48 hours...a total of 462 zero pointers and 191 dupes is 653 qso's that 
> were totally useless information exchanged...or a waste of 5.9 hours for the 
> entire station....

At least six zero-pointers weren't wasted at all - they were your USA
multipliers.  ("at least", because if you didn't work the appropriate
Canadians some of the zero-pointers may have also been your zone 3/4/5
mults)

That's also why some of them called you.  

I'm not so sure I like the idea of allowing one point for own-country
QSOs in CQ WW.  There aren't enough zero-pointers to seriously inhibit
one's opportunity to work interesting DX.  I don't think the comparison
to WPX is a fair one.
-- 
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

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