[CQ-Contest] re: LZ DX Contest ...uniques removed

[Zack Widup]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, ak0a wrote:

> I might as well get in on this. Suppose there is a rare DX station in the
> contest, and somebody needs him for  new country and HE is not in the
> contest and works him one time. That makes him unique so then you take away
> the qso from the DX station? I suggest that you stop worring about uniques
> and dont take points from anybody.

I think some thought and logic should be applied.  If the unique is
likely a busted call, maybe it should be labeled as such.  If someone logs
W9SG in a CW contest and I show up in others' logs around the same time on
the same band, he likely busted my call.  But if it's something like
WQ9HAM and there's no call even remotely close to that in any other log,
then I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe the percentage of uniques in someone's log should be considered.  If
it's just a few, again I'd give him the benefit of the doubt.  But if he
had a LOT of uniques, I'd question whether he was making up QSO's or not.

73, Zack W9SZ