IMHO the Germans have come up with pretty good qualifying criteria.
I do have two suggestions for our German friends:
1. For W/VE stations, the ARRL DX contests should count for a full 1000
points.Over here it is just as serious of a competitive contest as is CQWW. A
lower maximum for those outside W/VE is still reasonable.
2. The out-of-home-region area rule should be relaxed to allow those operating
from outside their home region but within a certain distance of their home (150
km?) to not be restricted by the out of area rule. Somebody who lives in DC but
operates from a station a few km away in VA should not be treated as an out of
area operator. (In this example he would still be ranked against the other
stations in W4, not those in W1-2-3).
73 - Jim K8MR
-----Original Message-----
From: 4O3A <4o3a@t-com.me>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 8:43 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Qualifying
Hi to all,
I hope that some comments will be considered and Team selection criteria
will be changed a bit?
For me and all contesters whom I discussed with, obvious problem is
having to short selection period.
Ranking 12 contests , and making selection criteria in the way that
mostly SOAB are to be done is to much. Organizer counts seasons
2015/2016, and not counting 2017? None of us can't see reasonable
explanation for such decision. We all suffered for qualifying for WRTC
2014 in Boston, dedicating ourself to make 12 good scores, and we had 3
years for it. It was really hard - ask anyone from EU or USA who did it.
Now we have only two years for same number of contests?
I have station capable to win and to assure place in qualification. I am
enough dedicated to spend unreasonable amount of time for hobby, but
honestly, it becomes to be so demanding and overmuch.
My proposal should be to:
-Extend qualification period on 2017
-Calculate eight best scores
It will give more chance to more contesters with average stations, and
will demand not quantity of scores - will demand higher scores and
quality. Simple.
I know that this will be probably ignored, but is is common opinion of
many contesters and previous WRTC participants.
Also, as organizer has full right to make selection criteria whatever he
likes, it is better to invite teams by whatever criteria you like,
instead having bad selection criteria.
Now I am curious to see rules. Hope our German friends will be more open
for rules with more rooms for technical improvements. Hope all will
agree that this aspect of contesting is very important as well as
operating skills?
73
Ranko
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