[CQ-Contest] Uniques not counting and emotion

[Mark Bailey]

Mark Beckwith wrote:
 >> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Uniques not counting and emotion
 >
 > Everybody "just gets on the air to hand out a few points" from time 
to time. I think the best thing a casual op can do to help is to 
remember to work more than one serious guy.
 >
 > Two will do it, if they're serious and turn in their logs.  If you're 
not sure, then work four or five.  This doesn't take much more than just 
working one guy.
 >
 > This has been talked about for so long that there is no reason anyone 
reading this reflector doesn't know it.  Please don't get on and only 
make one QSO.  It doesn't help.
 >
 > Mark, N5OT

Unfortunately, most of the "casual" guys don't read this reflector.  The
people who I am explaining the Sweepstakes exchange to Sunday afternoon,
for instance.

Having lost the Atlantic Division in SS a couple of years ago by a
single QSO, I do firmly believe every QSO matters.

Fortunately, most of the contests don't remove unique QSO's from the
logs...

73,

Mark, KD4D