So who were R36F? Did they have an unfair advantage that showed in the final
results?
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From: "Carol Richards" <n2mm@comcast.net>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 9:23 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Spotting
>I have received several comments related to my earlier post. I think Jeff,
>KU8E was right on track with his suggestion up to a point. I think it
>should be left to the WRTC committee to make the determination after the
>contest and before the final results are announced. If a log has a
>dispropotionate amount of unique calls from their own country then the
>rules should allow for the removal of those unique calls. In almost every
>contest there are always some unique calls. A lot of times they are just
>busted callsigns. The key words are disproportionate numbers.
>
> I made a comment about WRTC stations always having an endless supply of
> stations to work. The same feeling exists on the East coast with a
> seemingly endless supply of EU and on the West coast with the large number
> of JA's. I stand corrected. There are times when calling CQ gets very few
> responses. Even the WRTC teams did experience those moments. The use of a
> packet spot might be advantageous to them or it won't! This is where
> operator skill and knowledge comes in. When a run dries up, this might
> indicate the need for a band change and that's what they did.
>
> Finally, the use of packet spotting will continue to exist whether we like
> it or not. Perhaps, as Jeff suggested, penalizing a country's team might
> offer a signifcant enough of a deterrent to disuade such practices;
> especially if it is made known that the final positioning was directly
> affected. by these, few over-zealous supporters. A prime example of this
> was when a fan at a baseball game reaches over to touch or catch a foul
> ball that a fielder might have caught. The outcome of the game might have,
> as a result of this fan's over zealous action, been altered in favor of
> the opposing team.
>
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