[CQ-Contest] "I would like to see more DQs...."

[kr2q at optimum.net]

K4RJB said
[snip]
I would like to see more DQ's for unverified contacts.  I found one contestant in the 
CQ WW 160 had 51% uniques
[end snip]


Well, I suppose that things have changed a lot since then.  Most Uniques are actually
Busted or Bad calls (no, not all, but most).  Thanks to automated cross-checking, this is
now easy to do.  Busted/Bad calls are deducted (with penalty? - I don't know for 160),
so there is no reason to DQ anyone...they get dinged anyway.

For a recent CQ160cw contest, I found the following stats for SO, HP entrants:

UNIQUE RATES:
Minimum = 0.00%
Maximum = 14.81% 

10th percentile = 0.00%
25th percentile = 0.00%
50th percentile = 0.21%
75th percentile = 0.59%
90th percentile = 1.04%

Very respectable.

So the 14.81% is a huge outlier, but in this case, is probably real.  
He is from rare county and zone and made only a "small" number of QSO's.  

The days of Unique rates over 1% are gone (in fact, it looks like the days 
of over 0.6% are mostly gone).

So DQing for "unverifiable" QSO's is, today, a moot point.  It just doesn't happen.
Something to celebrate!

de Doug KR2Q