[CQ-Contest] unique contacts and logging errors

[Mike Gilmer - N2MG]

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 
(correct) until proven guilty (incorrect).  (As such, 
it is proper for it to drill as deep as possible into 
the logs looking for errors.)  Summary removal of 
uniques is quite the opposite.  Even though the 
negative effects are felt greatest by those operating 
at "rare" QTHs, I would not care to operate such a 
contest, even from stateside.

Mike N2MG

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 05:05:45 -0700, mike l dormann wrote:

> 
> 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 guys coming out of the
> woodwork to
> contact us
> 
<snip>

> logging errors
> to me contests are kind of like American voting, you
> check to see if
> there is any obvious cheating, showing that the
> contestant's log probably
> has an error rate of less than 5%, and go on to the
> next contestant's
> log.
> 
> we have a new contest when accuracy becomes king, it 
> is almost like a change in the unwritten rules 
> 
> last CQWW my score was cut in half by errors in my 
> log, makes me less
> excited to work a guy that comes out of the mud for
> about 30 seconds,
> grab him to never hear him again, "was that a U or 
> V?" i made 4 logging
> errors to cause this score reduction (SOSB80LP from 
> pac nw)
> 

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