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

Pete Smith n4zr at contesting.com
Tue Aug 5 06:50:28 EDT 2008


At 06:05 PM 8/4/2008, Randy Thompson wrote:
>When you look at the list of active calls that were reported from one
>contest, it is amazingly easy to see the ones that are obvious busts of an
>active call.  Then there are all the rest.  Contest sponsors have
>traditionally leaned toward giving the benefit of the doubt for these.


They don't seem to have done so this time at ARRL - I lost credit for every 
unique (7 I think, not counting busted calls)), including at least 5 that 
are confirmed to be active calls by QRZ.

73, Pete N4ZR






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