[SECC] Comments requested.

[w4nti@mindspring.com]

There it is, another example of my favorite quote;

"You just cain't fix stupid"

Dan/W4NTI

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> I agree that uniques are part of normal contesting.  The average uniques
in
> the CQ 160 is less than 1% for scores over 500 QSOs.
> Then along comes a LZ9 and a UQ2 with hundreds of uniques that even closer
> stations did not work.  RA3AUU thinks this could be rag chewers not even
in
> the contest.   I was able to attract many stations not in the contest in
my
> ARRL SS efforts.  In those days uniques was not even in the contesters
> vocab.  I suspect that just like today some who got on to work one station
> made several more contacts.  The list of possible uniques from high
scorers
> usually all show up in several logs.....thus the rate of uniques on 160 is
> very low.
>
> The probem log checkers run into is our software can ferret out uniques
but
> proving these contacts to be bad is hard.   If a station has 500+ (out of
> 1100 Q's) uniques and they are all in one or two countries...what is the
log
> checker to think?   Thus Don set the 7% rule as a generous test (rather
than
> 5% as several suggested).    I found one stateside station to have
probably
> listed out the call book to fill out his log.   He trapped himself when he
> listed novices and techs (several confirmed by mail) that have no access
to
> 160.
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
>
>
>
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