[CQ-Contest] Counting uniques

W0MU w0mu at w0mu.com
Tue Sep 8 13:55:33 EDT 2015


Much of this can all be avoided by sending in a log.

Maybe the answer is to ask the logging software guys to add in something 
like automatic sending of logs after a contest.  They would be checklogs 
if nothing else were done.  Other options could be added.

The day of realtime logging is probably not that far off in the future.

It might not fix the issue with the guy that really does only make one 
contact with some rare entity or very few contacts, but could help 
further delineate true uniques from true busts.

I recall a SS I did after N0RK (SK) (WB0IWL) passed away and I forgot to 
email the log in or I botched it and never caught the fact that the log 
was never sent.  I looked for my score and never found it.  Emailed the 
ARRL and they said they never got a log.  So these things can happen.

Uniques will never go away but I don't think that they should be removed 
unless they can be proven to be busts.  obviously high unique rates 
would require further investigation.






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