It's possible to qualify by doing low power. Your score would be
compared to others that are doing low power and not the high power
scores. If you do that you won't have to compete again the "big gun"
stations in your region. Plus you aren't getting any reduction in score
( getting the same number of points same as HP SO guys) like someone who
did Multi-Ops. I really doubt someone who has a big station would want
to bother with doing low power.
If I'm not mistaken Julio, AD4Z, who is one of the team leaders in our
region (NA-002) did this and qualified.
Jeff KU8E
On 7/6/2018 11:11 PM, Timothy Coker via CQ-Contest wrote:
I think what’s most interesting is the guys I know who typically win don’t
spend a lot of time complaining... they spend a lot of time working at what makes them
winners.
I can also think of some people who won/win that don’t have deep pockets at all.
Some of the best operators don’t actually have big stations. Not taking away
from the big station owners at all, as some of them are great operators themselves.
However, many are willing to let the latest up and coming great operators take their
station seats to show what can be done.
It makes sense to me because it takes a lot of time and effort to either build
or work to pay for others to build something expensive. That same time is thus
not spent on honing operating skills.
Very similar to how many athletes aren’t rich until after (and not for all)
they have worked so very hard to win and are given noteriety.
If a guy wants to remote or travel into my area and he beats me, so be it... time for me to get
better. Or maybe I don’t want to put in the same operating skills effort that he did and thus
I’ll just hope he doesn’t return.
Competition is great... it shows how hard we are willing to work, or not.
Tim / N6WIN.
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On Friday, July 6, 2018, 14:45, Jim via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
wrote:
I have a somewhat different perspective, being an Ohio snowbird who spends half the year in
Florida. As a practical matter I could not qualify without a lot of travel or remote
operating from W8. And I’m not that stupid to head north from Florida in
February :-)
I had my shot at WRTC in 2014 (as N1U with partner K9NW), but I didn’t compete to qualify for
2018, and don’t see me trying to qualify for future WRTCs, so don’t take these
comments as being self serving.
If a W6 resident wants to operate from W1, let him do so, comparing his scores
with other W1 entrants. And conversely, if a guy living in W1 is crazy enough
to want to operate CQWW from W6, thinking the qualifying competition there
might be less, why stop him? Again, compare his W6 score with other W6 scores,
and let the WRTC qualifying points go into his home W1 account.
So long as a person is a legitimate resident of his qualifying area, why stop him from operating
from anywhere in the world, whether in person or remotely? I don’t have a problem to allow
someone like LZ4AX to qualify from W3, but I would not let people become “Africans”
solely by virtue of a bunch of operating from zone 33.
73 - Jim K8MR
p.s. Keep in mind the motto of the Florida Contest Group: Sooner or later,
you’ll be one of us!
On Jul 6, 2018, at 4:16 PM, WW3S <ww3s@zoominternet.net> wrote:
A west coast ham, operating a remote station with antennas in Maine, should be
competing as if he/she were physically in Maine.
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On Jul 5, 2018, at 11:56 PM, David Siddall <hhamwv@gmail.com> wrote:
A W6 ham resident in California that operates a station on the east coast,
whether by physical or remote means, could not qualify to be a team leader
for the WRTC2018. Rule 7.5 - 7.7, subject to Rule 6.2.
73, Dave K3ZJ
On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Carol Richards <n2mm@comcast.net> wrote:
Hi,
I agree....where you operate _from_ should determine what region you
compete in. A W6 in California operating a remote station on the East coast
should not be grouped with other East coast stations to qualify for WRTC.
This remote category is getting out of hand.
Carol
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