[CQ-Contest] unique contacts and logging errors

[Robert McGwier]

Surely the contest committee has better things to do than
look at Joe Blow dropping by for a one-off QSO.
It would raise suspicion if you and you alone work
P4ABC or  KH1/Amelia1Earhart and are in W/K or
if you are in A51 and work every single member of
your amateur radio community.

It surely has to have some characteristic  that makes it
stand out as suspicious otherwise these poor folks on
that committee would need to give up their day job.

Bob
N4HY
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw at fyi.net>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] unique contacts and logging errors


> Derek,
>
> I suspect that if you worked HC8N, or for that matter any one station, 6
> times in a contest, it would be an indication that you are not a unique.
> Although for the purposes of this discussion, I'd been assuming that a
> "unique" call indicates someone who you and only you worked exactly ONCE.
> Now you have me wondering... does it instead indicate someone you and only
> you worked, regardless of how many times you worked him in a particular
> contest?
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
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> ----- Original Message -----
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:35:22 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Derek Wills <oo7 at pan.as.utexas.edu>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com, k0xu at iowadsl.net
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] unique contacts and logging errors
>
>         >There have been other contests where I worked only two or three
>         >stations. I'm sure others have done this also.
>         >73, Zack W9SZ
>
> >>In this situation wouldn't the polite thing to do be sending
>         >>in a check log? I have done this in the past.
>
> For working a handful of stations?  Those of us OFs who log with
> paper and pencil then have to figure out the format that the contest
> organizers want, where to send it, by when, all that stuff.  No way!
>
> As I think others have suggested, it would seem sensible only to
> worry about the stations that seem to have an unusual fraction of
> Uniques, and check out a representative sample of those Qs.
>
> Does it count as a Unique if you are in the log on several bands?
> I always make it a point of honor to work HC8N on 6 bands in a
> contest if possible.   If that's all I do, do they lose some large
> number of points?
>
> Derek aa5bt
>
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