[WriteLog] Uniques in CQWW and CQ/RJ WPX RTTY Contests

[Bob Wruble]

amen and well put, tom de bob, w7gg/ww7or

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From: "Tom Frenaye" <frenaye@pcnet.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 8:19 PM
Subject: [WriteLog] Uniques in CQWW and CQ/RJ WPX RTTY Contests


>
> On June 21st there was a message from: "Eddie Schneider"
<edlyn@california.com> posted on the Writelog reflector with text from Glenn
Vinson, W6OTC, the Contest Director (of both contests I assume) regarding
the handling of uniques in the CQWW and CQ/RJ WPX RTTY contests.
>
> In the middle of his detailed message was a paragraph that said:
>
> >> Where a unique is also a bad call, all seem to agree that it ought to
be
> >> excluded from a score.  Examples include calls that are not legal or
that do not
> >> in fact exist.  For some contesters, this is as far as the inquiry
ought to go,
> >> meaning that unless a unique is also classified as "bad", it should
have no
> >> impact on the score.  Some, including the ARRL, are prepared to go even
farther
> >> and to allow a "bad" call to be counted so long as it is inaccurate by
only one
> >> character (as determined by comparison to a callsign database) in the
logged
> >> callsign.  I fail to see the logic in this policy.  Is it sufficient to
say
> >> that, "This contact should count because I almost copied the call
correctly"?
>
> A quick look suggests no one corrected the incorrect information above.
There is nothing in the checking of any ARRL contest that allows a bad
callsign to be counted if it is off by one character.   If you get the call
wrong the contact is not allowed.  Period.
>
> A personal comment: As for the discussion over uniques, I find it hard to
understand why a valid QSO would not be allowed by the checking process.  If
the callsign is wrong, toss it out.   If QSO didn't happen, confirm it by
getting a log extract from the other station.  Don't penalize someone in the
contest for working a station that didn't make enough QSOs to show up
multiple times in other logs.  I'm especially critical that uniques are not
allowed when there is nothing in the rules indicating that's what happens in
the log checking.
>
> Sorry not to have commented on the ARRL log checking issue earlier,
someone just brought it to my attention a few days ago - I'm not a regular
subscriber to the Writelog reflector.
>
>                         73 Tom
>
>
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