[CQ-Contest] Some thoughts on uniques, was: 99% of uniques are busted

[Michael Coslo]

On Aug 1, 2008, at 2:37 PM, <ve4xt at mts.net> <ve4xt at mts.net> wrote:

> You do not need to send in a log to not see your call shown as a  
> unique.
>
> If you have a unique in the log, it means that station worked you  
> and absolutely nobody else who  submitted a log.
>
> Possible? Yes. Which is why a "unique" should never be grounds for a  
> penalty.


	While I would agree that a unique is not a reason for busting a call,  
I would also agree that most of them are busted. But some possible  
reasons otherwise might be:

The person who fires up the rig and just wants to see if it will work.  
Doesn't send in a log.

The same person might have worked another who didn't send in a log.

If each of them worked another person who did send a log in , you can  
have a couple uniques right there.

That being said, if a log comes down that has a lot of uniques, it  
will get some extra scrutiny. Some times you see other Ops local to  
the  contester, things like that.


-73 de Mike N3LI -