[CQ-Contest] unique contacts

[Merrimon Crawford Pladsen]

I have sometimes felt tempted to make one call and only one call in 
contests that penalize for unique calls.....and making that one call to one 
of the contest managers of those contests that penalize for 
uniques......very tempting!

Any contester who participates in non-contest activities might get a unique 
from friends in those other activities.  In addition, there are some 
operators, QRP and big guns, who have exceptional ears, even in SSB.  When 
I operated from my lousy former NC lousy station, I was just amazed to see 
who could hear me and who couldn't....sometimes they were people who were 
as weak as water had better ears than those with the mammoth stations.

I think working from poor stations has helped me to hear better than if I 
had only operated at big stations.....at the very least, the experience of 
making myself heard when I have a pathetic signal has helped me to be able 
to guide those weak stations answering my CQ so that I can hear them when 
people listening to me in the room are amazed I actually worked them.

73
Merri AB0MV