I am often a unique.
My home has a large, well-equipped ham shack. My husband and I are each
active hams. If he is at home operating in a contest I might go out and do
errands or visit a grandkid. Along the way I turn on the rig in my car. If I
hear him, whether SSB or CW, and I do tune around to hear him, I QSO him. If
I hear other local guys on, I QSO them also.
My mobile contacts aren't scheduled. I never sign /m because mobile CW or
SSB is complicated enough without adding extra characters. I almost never
send in a log after these few contacts.
Thus, my husband's logs often have a unique call - K5DU - in them. It's a
valid contact and he should get credit.
Unfortunately, most of my contesting is RTTY. Our mobile setups, in his
truck and in my car, don't support RTTY.
Uniquely, Susan K5DU
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:30 PM, John Barber GW4SKA <ska@bartg.org.uk>wrote:
> Unique calls that show up in a contest log occur for many reasons, but most
> are due to bad logging. These can usually be picked out by the log checker
> and the contacts flagged as invalid.
>
> Contest checking software has got very clever and can be used to spot
> whether a contact is good or bad for all sorts of reasons. The decision to
> DQ a contact is still down to the log checker and how he or she uses that
> software. It would be ridiculous to automatically disqualify a perfectly
> good contact because that was the only occurence of a call. Contest
> stations
> in the more exotic locations will make many contacts with 'unique' calls;
> these are perfectly valid QSOs with ops who may be after a new country on
> RTTY and have no intention of making any other contact in the contest.
>
> Bill is correct regarding checking of BARTG logs. No 'uniques' get excluded
> automatically; they only go through manual intervention of the log checker.
> This checking also shows up the tiny minority who might add a little extra
> to their log ... a problem that was too common a few years ago but has
> almost gone now!
>
> 73,
> John GW4SKA
> BARTG Contest Manager
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
> To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] EA Contest Rules
>
>
> > ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> >
> > On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 05:17:10 -0400, "Shelby Summerville"
> > <k4ww@arrl.net> wrote:
> >
> >>, IMHO the log checker should do all possible to verify that it is
> >>indeed "unique", and not "busted"?
> >
> > REPLY:
> >
> > I remember hearing years ago that log checkers do indeed track down
> > individual QSOs if and when it makes a difference in who wins a class.
> > They don't bother if it just moves someone from 25th place to 26th
> > place, but when it matters, they will. Obviously that amount of
> > diligence depends on the individual doing the checking, but I'd like
> > to think it is commonplace.
> >
> > I might be living in dreamland but I hope not. :-)
> >
> > 73, Bill W6WRT
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