[CQ-Contest] Counting uniques

[David Siddall]

Uniques are counted in the CQ & ARRL contests.  Is there a proposal to
change this?  What exactly is this discussion about?

73, Dave K3ZJ

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Jukka Klemola <jpklemola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charly ..
> You got me very interested in your email.
>
> Can you please review your CQWW 2013 SSB log checking report for your
> uniques and tell the people on the email list if you really have 30% of
> your QSOs as uniques?
> It would be a record number by a huge margin !
>
> You did not submit a log for 2014 CQWW contests.
>
>
> 73,
> Jukka OH6LI
>
> 2015-09-04 0:53 GMT+03:00 Charles Harpole <hs0zcw at gmail.com>:
>
> > If my contest uniques got taken out, I could lose 1/3 of my contacts and
> > assume is true with other DX stations.
> > The FACT is that I get unique calls from ops who want to work Thailand
> and
> > then do not work any other contesters.  Also, those who get on contest
> > activity to work DX and not contests often do not send in a log, either.
> >
> > ​American bosses of American contests show little understanding nor care
> > for the DX entries.  The effect is more and more DX I talk to just
> consider
> > the contests a way to work increased activity on the bands and skip the
> > logging and reporting as beside the point--after all, in the American
> > contests, DX exists to service NA and that function gets old very quick.
> > 73,
> > ​Charly, HS0ZCW
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