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

[Bill Inkrote]

Jesus....  This is insane -

Casual operators DO NOT HURT ANYONE...

CQ does NOT remove UNIQUES !  And if any sponsor does remove them, then that
sponsor would be very lonely the next time around - because all serious
contest stations would not go into the contest.

The difference between a WINNER and also-rans is the ability to work more
stations... PERIOD... This means they WANT UNIQUE stations that just happen
on the band and work one or ten stations... then go to church, car race,
wash their hair or whatever......

Now by this stupid (too long lived) thread people are now saying " gee,
maybe I should not work contest stations because I am hurting them"...
GIMME A BREAK!

UBN Uniques are not deleted (unless they can be PROVEN as a broken call)
They are marked as unique, JUST MARKED --- check out the explanations... the
are MARKED but not REMOVED.

Get your stuff right before you guys cause a panic... and kill this thread -
its overlived its usefulness...

Bill K2NJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Benko" <benko@aztek-eng.com>
To: <writelog@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] [faunt@panix.com: Uniques, the greater impact, and
club competitions]


>
> 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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