Is there a list of the calls and operators available now?
I know one call so far, didn't work 'em unfortunately...
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en
Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/
Elecraft K2 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
Elecraft K3/100 #1875
--- On Mon, 7/12/10, HK3CW <cwdude@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: HK3CW <cwdude@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Spotting
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Date: Monday, July 12, 2010, 11:47 AM
> So who were R36F? Did they have an
> unfair advantage that showed in the final
> results?
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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