[UK-CONTEST] UBN/NIL Reports

[Tom Wylie]

Ideally you should be aimin for NIL, but in real life that will never / 
seldom happen.   I wouldn't complain about loosing 0.8% ------8% i might be 
tempted to see where we are going wrong - hihi

73 de tom
gm4fdm/GM5A
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clive Whelan" <clive.whelan at btinternet.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UBN/NIL Reports


> G0RTN wrote
>
>
> <
> Does anyone know what sort of standard a single operator should be aiming
> for in terms of lost points on UBN/NILs in a CW contest.  They didn't have
> all this new fangled stuff when I was last contesting!
>
> Or put it another way I've just got my CQWW CW report (OK, easier 'coz
> there's no serial numbers) - so is losing 0.8% of QSOs and 3.1% of points 
> OK
> or do I need to work on this?>
>
> That's nothing to be concerned about, just keep it that way! Absence of
> serial numbers is not relevant ; exchange is  not checked anyway. Under 5%
> points loss is no problem. Caveat it's easy to get good UBNs with small
> numbers of QSOs, but your score for a full out effort is OK, don't panic!
>
> 73
>
>
> Clive
> GW3NJW
>
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