[WriteLog] [faunt@panix.com: Uniques, the greater impact, and club competitions]

[Larry Benko]

I must admit my ignorance here.  I regularly enter contests on a
part time basis and casually work a few hundred stations and often
do NOT send in a log.  I never realized that I could be hurting
some other participant's score.  Realizing this will probably 
cause me not to enter some contests at all if I was only going to
make a few contacts and cause ohters to lose points.

73,
Larry Benko, W0QE 

Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote:
> 

> No one has mentioned here the impact on DX stations competing.
> 
> If a station is even fairly common DX, like P4, if there's a uncommon
> opening, then a LOT of those contacts could be people who are willing
> to give the contest exchange in order to get the new one.  The side
> effect is that the DX station is less likely to stay on a band where
> the opening is, because if all (or many) of those uniques are
> disallowed, then they're wasted energy.

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