[CQ-Contest] unique contacts and logging errors

[k1ttt at arrl.net]

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 with that guy who asks 
what contest is running this weekend
3. finding that south american multiplier ragchewing with his buddy and then 
chatting with him for a while to find out how much power he is running.
4. running 10m single band at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, i have a 
certificate for winning wma section in arrl dx where i only made 2 contacts in 
one country.
5. check into local vhf or traffic nets the week before major contests to 
explain rules and invite visitors... then having locals with no 160m antenna 
load up their bedsprings during cq-160 to make some contacts, and you are the 
only one who can hear them.  if i make a half dozen contacts in a uhf contest 
its a lot for me... that may be all the stations i hear in a weekend on 70cm 
here, yes it does help to reciprocate and then ask them to contact you in ss 
or other domestic contests.
6. begging... its amazing how many calls you can get sunday afternoon who ask 
what the exchange is and if they have to send in a log for you to get credit 
for the contact.
7. mobile stations, how often have you been called by someone mobile who said 
they heard you while on the way to the store and thought they would give you a 
contact.



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