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Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for WRTC...oops

To: donovanf@starpower.net
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for WRTC...oops
From: Jamie WW3S <ww3s@zoominternet.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 15:17:04 -0500 (EST)
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Where is the LIKE button ?!?!?!

----- Original Message -----
From: donovanf@starpower.net
To: "Contest Reflector" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 2:22:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for WRTC...oops

........Most importantly enjoy yourself, if you can't do that you're 
in the wrong game. 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb@gmail.com> 
To: "Karel Matousek" <ok1cf@atlas.cz> 
Cc: "Rastislav Hrnko" <om3bh@centrum.sk>, k5zd@charter.net, "Contest Reflector" 
<cq-contest@contesting.com>, "Mats Strandberg" <sm6lrr@gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 4:34:13 PM 
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for WRTC...oops 

And Minnesota is in the same group with West Virginia. 

Did they just throw darts at a map? 

73, de Hans, K0HB 
“Just a Boy and his Radio”™ 








On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 09:28 Karel Matousek <ok1cf@atlas.cz> wrote: 

> Hi, 
> 
> UA6 it is a completely different world than here in central Europe. I 
> cannot believe that someone could invent such stupidity and put OK/OM and 
> UA6 into one group. I agree with Rasta OM3BH. 
> 
> 
> 
> Karel OK1CF/OK5W 
> ______________________________________________________________ 
> > Od: "Rastislav Hrnko" <om3bh@centrum.sk> 
> > Komu: k5zd@charter.net, "'Mats Strandberg'" <sm6lrr@gmail.com>, "' 
> cq-contest@contesting.com'" <cq-contest@contesting.com> 
> > Datum: 02.01.2019 14:16 
> > Předmět: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for WRTC...oops 
> > 
> Hi guys, 
> 
> Does anyone have a worse idea to include UA6 region together with OK, OM 
> etc.... ??? Why not with UA9 ...? 
> It would never have occurred to me. 
> 
> 
> 73 HNY Rasťo OM3BH 
> ______________________________________________________________ 
> > Od: k5zd@charter.net 
> > Komu: "'Mats Strandberg'" <sm6lrr@gmail.com>, "' 
> cq-contest@contesting.com'" <cq-contest@contesting.com> 
> > Dátum: 02.01.2019 07:24 
> > Predmet: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for WRTC...oops 
> > 
> It is up to the organizers, but in the past, this only meant that all 
> single band scores were compared to the all band scores. Not that a 
> single band entry could win and get the full qualifying points unless 
> their score was higher than the top all band entry. 
> It is possible in a contest like WPX for a single band entry to have a 
> higher score than the all band entries. In this case, it makes sense 
> that the single band entry would get the full qualifying points. But, 
> in most cases, it will be the all band score that sets the standard. 
> 
> Regardless of the past, you are correct that the rules as written do 
> not specify this clearly. 
> Randy K5ZD 
> 
> -----------------------------------------From: "Mats Strandberg" 
> To: cqtestk4xs@aol.com 
> Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com 
> Sent: Tuesday January 1 2019 9:30:11AM 
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rules for WRTC...oops 
> 
> Bill, 
> 
> Exactly the same struck me... 
> 
> A station with a decent antenna for any single band, can quite easily 
> reach 
> Full Score in 12 contests, while the very skilled SO2R All Band 
> operator, 
> quite easily can end up not on full score in some of the contests, 
> due to 
> much higher competition, with the result that the Single Band guy can 
> grab 
> that TL ticket quite easily. 
> 
> Or Bill, do we both miss something in the “small text” of the 
> rules? 
> 
> 73 de RM2D, Mats 
> 
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 16:03, Bill kollenbaum via CQ-Contest < 
> cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote: 
> 
> > A couple of things popped out at me. 
> > If I read the rules correctly: 
> > Single band entries count the same as all band entries...big 
> problem. 
> > Station VP5XYZ operates with a smallt station on a band from which 
> there 
> > are usually not any single band efforts...160 or 10. He operates 
> for a 
> > couple of hours and winds up with 30 or 40 Qs. VP5ABC does AB and 
> makes 
> > 7000 Qs but finishes nr 2 for his area. VP5XYZ gets more WRTC 
> credit than 
> > the guy who busted butt for 40+ hours at VP5ABC. This could happen 
> in many 
> > of the qualifying areas. 
> > In qualifying zones which are sparsely populated, what happens if 
> no one 
> > gets 25% of the top operator's score...no one goes from that 
> district? 
> > 
> > Bill KH7XS/K4XS 
> > 
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