[CQ-Contest] 99% of uniques are busted

[saul_abrams at dps.state.ny.us]

Someone mistakenly interpreted my earlier comment about uniques and high 
power versus QRP as a knock on the abilities of QRP ops.  That was 
certainly not my intention.  This is what I sent him:
NO!!!! You miss my point entirely.  I have the utmost respect for QRP ops 
and their abilities.  If you qrp you better be good or it's a very slow, 
boring contest.  A qrp op usually S&P's, answering CQs, so the guys 
calling CQ won't be a unique.  High power guys call CQ often and could be 
called by any one, including the guy running 5 watts to a bedspring who 
works 15 minutes for a contact and then quits--unique.  I did not mean to 
cast aspersions on qrp--but only to point out that the operating styles 
lead to different levels of uniques.  Similarly, I would expect that an 
S&Per (QRP??) would have a better busted record because he knows who he is 
calling (packet errors aside) while a CQ'er could have alot more busted 
trying to pull out the calls in the noise and qrm. Just different 
operating styles and accuracy results.  Sorry for the misunderstanding!! 
73  Saul  K2XA