VR2BG wrote:
> Participants aren't "equal". An RX9T or RA3A will not be called in RDXC
> by some of the non-combatants that will call a 5B (or, from my own
> experience, a VR, XX or 9M6). Non-combatants tend not to submit entries
> or checklogs & in a contest like RDXC where a Q essentially only counts
> if it was found in the other stations' logs, we
> not-exactly-garden-variety DX suffer.
As far as I know the above statement is not quite correct. If someone's log
is missing the attempt is made to recreate sort of a artificial log of that
station based on available logs. That technically mean that if that
non-combatant worked not only one but several participants, the likelihood
of counting his contacts for points is pretty high.
skip....
> But it does seem to support 5B4AIZ's (and my) feeling -
> not-exactly-garden-variety DX is at a disadvantage in contests where
> adjudication is based entirely on submitted entries.
I think the disadvantage you are talking about is more then compensated for
by "DXness" and geographical position. We experienced that in 2005 working
in RDXC from 8Q7 where we were #4 in the final results despite of being much
less equipped then some of the EU stations down in the results. My statement
is also supported by last year first place by 4Z5J and numerous top 3
results made by different people from 5B4.
Having said that I myself do not like to be penalized for the mistakes of
others. Still as long as the rules are the same for every participant I am
happy to participate.
73, Igor UA9CDC
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