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WRTC Comments:
The WRTC is two things:
1. A social event that is terrific. Don't miss it.
2. A competition to determine the winning teams.
Given that the first is easy to obtain. What about that serious
second part?
Well, it seems very apparent that everyone agrees that the WRTC as
it is now set up will be unfair.
The stations can not be made equal at all.
If the organizers want to know about how to make things more equal,
the experts are the former USSR hams. They have already thought all
of this out. Consult UA9BA etc.
>>I agree with Dick, N6AA that the result of the WRTC is that the
winners are held up to be real. They may have been winners but the
stations were NOT equal.  
>>If the WRTC is so unfair what does it mean?
It means that the on the air event result does not reflect a FAIR
competition. 

>> That is why I suggested more events than the on the air event.
Which everyone so far has agreed is not fair. PED is suggested
because it is equal and there is plenty of time to practice before
next July. There is NO REASON why the on the air event has to be
the sole determiner of the winner. Indeed it should not be. It is
unfair.  A combination of 2, 3 or even 4 events should determine
the winner. The on the air event satisfies the contest community.
The other contests what ever they are, do not have to be sterile.
PED is not sterile. It just is not on the air. But it is fair. Even
the most backward team has time to practice with PED or some
similar device. 

2. The team selection criteria is still VERY wrong whatever the
excuse.

ITU ZONE
1, 2 KL7
2,3,4.9,75 = VE
6,7,8 MAINLAND USA
10 XE
11 8P,9Y,FG,FM,HI,HH,HP,HR,J6,J3,J7,J8,P4,PJ,TG,TI,VP2,VP5,YS
12 8R,HC,OA,PY,PZ.YV,FY,HK
13 py,
14,16 lu
15 py
17 tf
18 jw,jx,la,oh,oh0,oy,oz,sm
19,20,29,30 uA-UI
20-26,30,35,75 = UA9/0
27,ON,G ETC,PA,F
28,OE,OK,OM,S5,SP,SV,T9,YO,YU,DL,HA,HB9
29 LY,UA2F,ES,EU,ER,YL
37 EA, CT, EA6,CN
39,4X,JY
41 VU
44 HL
45 JA JD
51.54 YB
55 VK
57 ZS
58 VK
59 VK
60 ZL
61 kh6

PY has 3 zones!!!

If the teams are chosen from ITU zones then:
>> only 3,4,5,6,8,9,13,14,15,16,18,19,27,28,29,37,39,45,55,57,58,59 
and 60 have any contest activity to speak of.
And zones 3,4,5.6.7,8,9 27,28,29,45 contain about 90% of all
contest activity from NATIVES. That is only 11 teams! Why should
the team from zone 61 (KH6) be given equal opportunity as zone 27
(all of western europe)? When was the last time you wrked 200 KH6's
in a row? When was the last time you wrked 200 europeans or JA's in
a row? Let's be fair.
I suggest 3 teams from the Pacific AT MOST. (VK, KH6, ZL and that
is strechting it). 2 teams from Africa. The only active country is
ZS. So ZS + anybody else. 3 teams from Asia, excluding JA (UA9, UA0
and any one else--come on how many 9K2's do you wrk?). The order of
contest activity is: Europe>USA>JA>canada>rest of world. 

Perhaps 15 or so teams from Europe, 10 from USA(1 per USA call
area, 10 from JA(one per JA call area) and 2 from VE = 37 teams +
3 pacific(optimistic) + 2 Africa teams (really optimistic) + 3 Asia
teams (2 will be politically correct) + 4 south america teams =
total of 49 teams. This is easily within the framework set out by
the sponsors. 
>>It is wrong to give EQUAL weight to ZONE 40 and ZONE 27. 

Let's choose teams from areas that reflect real life. 

Some serious qestions must be asked.
1. When was the last time you ran any one in Oceania? Maybe VK's or 
   some ZL's but no one else. And not very many.
   When was the last time you ran the whole CONTINENT of africa?
2. When you call CQ into Asia, except for JA's, only UA9/0's are
what you wrk. OK an occasional 4X etc calls but you do not run
them. Or anything else. You do not even run UA9/0's only JA's.

All I am suggesting is that the process CAN be fair and not EQUAL
for all zones. Let's be fair. It is logical to make the # of team's
a fair reflection of areas of good contest operation not
Dxpeditions.
73 Bob K3EST


>From Robert Penneys <penneys at brahms.udel.edu>  Sun Sep  4 15:03:05 1994
From: Robert Penneys <penneys at brahms.udel.edu> (Robert Penneys)
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 1994 10:03:05 -0400
Subject: NERDS still needed/Sprint!!
Message-ID: <199409041403.KAA22325 at brahms.udel.edu>


We still need participants for both the CW and phone Sprints.

Join the "in" crowd..... let me know.

Let's go N.E.R.D.S.!!

Bob

Bob Penneys, WN3K     Frankford Radio Club      N.E.R.D.S.
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