[CQ-Contest] Counting uniques

[Peter Chamalian W1RM]

Back in the day, uniques were treated with a special consideration.  If the call was indeed a valid call and the owner showed up in the callbook, QRZ or other national directory, a request for a log extract was made.  Based on the reply, the QSO was treated accordingly.  I don't know if the same approach is done today or not.  If the call does not appear in such a listing then it's probably a good bet it's a busted call.  But, I would argue that the busted call could be a result of the receiver not copying it correctly, a bad spot or a bad sender (be it phone or cw) but that begs another issue.

I would argue that just because the call is unique, doesn't automatically mean it's broken and warrants further investigation.


Pete, W1RM

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Charles Harpole
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 5:54 PM
To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Counting uniques

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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