[RTTY] EA Contest Rules

[John Barber GW4SKA]

Unique calls that show up in a contest log occur for many reasons, but most 
are due to bad logging. These can usually be picked out by the log checker 
and the contacts flagged as invalid.

Contest checking software has got very clever and can be used to spot 
whether a contact is good or bad for all sorts of reasons. The decision to 
DQ a contact is still down to the log checker and how he or she uses that 
software. It would be ridiculous to automatically disqualify a perfectly 
good contact because that was the only occurence of a call. Contest stations 
in the more exotic locations will make many contacts with 'unique' calls; 
these are perfectly valid QSOs with ops who may be after a new country on 
RTTY and have no intention of making any other contact in the contest.

Bill is correct regarding checking of BARTG logs. No 'uniques' get excluded 
automatically; they only go through manual intervention of the log checker. 
This checking also shows up the tiny minority who might add a little extra 
to their log ... a problem that was too common a few years ago but has 
almost gone now!

73,
John GW4SKA
BARTG Contest Manager


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] EA Contest Rules


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 05:17:10 -0400, "Shelby Summerville"
> <k4ww at arrl.net> wrote:
>
>>, IMHO the log checker should do all possible to verify that it is
>>indeed "unique", and not "busted"?
>
> REPLY:
>
> I remember hearing years ago that log checkers do indeed track down
> individual QSOs if and when it makes a difference in who wins a class.
> They don't bother if it just moves someone from 25th place to 26th
> place, but when it matters, they will. Obviously that amount of
> diligence depends on the individual doing the checking, but I'd like
> to think it is commonplace.
>
> I might be living in dreamland but I hope not. :-)
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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