[CQ-Contest] Uniques not counting and emotion

[KI9A at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/22/2006 6:07:43 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
nf1j at earthlink.net writes:

There's  deleting uniques by suspicion, and raising suspicion by uniques. The 
 
practice, or possibility of a practice of simply deleting uniques from a  log 
simply because of their uniqueness is plain wrong. If you can't prove  they 
busted the call, you can't take it away. Period. It's just  wrong.



Amen to that.  You can't delete unique's because they sound  "suspicious"!! 
You need proof. If not, don't be surprised to fewer, and fewer  guys 
contesting.....If I were the owner of a big gun station, looking at all of  the time and 
money invested it, and the contest log checkers began removing  QSO's from my 
log that I just sat in the chair for 44 or 46 ( or more) hours to  produce, 
just because they don't show up in another's log, it would be time for  me to 
hang it up. The louder you are, I'll bet the more unique's you end up  with, am 
I correct?
 
Heck, I even had more than one QSO from a group that had a sked, they  asked 
NICELY if I could move, I did, and was rewarded with a few QSO's, which I  
would bet my bottom dollar were uniques.  Should I have been penalized for  being 
decent? Hmmmm. 
 
This is a tough situation. 
 
73-Chuck KI9A