WRTC Ideas

[W7NI at delphi.com]

Here is another wild scheme for leveling the playing field that I just
thought of:

1.  Describe every availabvle station in a complete and stanardized manner.


    Make the description a written one where a standard form is filled out
    asking all the appropriate questions about antennas, heights, equipment
    etc.  Perhaps augment the written descriptions with short video tapes of
    each station.

2.  Let every team study all of the station descriptions and view the video
    tapes.

3.  Auction the stations one at a time to the highest bidding team.

4.  Teams will bid contest points.  In other words, if a particularly
    desireable station is auctioned to a team for the high bid of 700 points,
    that team operates that station with a score handicap of 700 points.

5.  If a station gets no bids, save it for round 2 of the bidding process.

6.  After the first round of bids, maybe 35 teams will have selected 35
    stations and there will be 15 stations and 15 teams who still need to 
    choose.  Keep the bidding process going until all teams have a station.
    if there are stations and teams left over and no one wants to bid, they
    get to sit this contest out and watch the others have fun.  They really
    can't complain since they had an equal opportunity to bid on every
    single station.

7.

In this scheme, there is no need to level the playing field since the players
will do it themselves by choosing a good station witha big handicap or a not
so good station with a smaller handicap.  It is all part of the strategy.
Do you bid high on the best station or low on a lesser station?  It was just
like the SS contest of the late '50s and early '60s where you had to decide
to run high power with a 1.0 multiplier or low power with a 1.25 multiplier.
It all depends on how much you think you can improve your score with a louder
signal.

Whether it would be more appropriate to bid contest pi?? points or QSOs is
something for the sponsors to decide.  The contest can be won or lost right
there at the bidding procedure, but that is not too differeent from the real
world of contesting where the contest is probably more often than not won or
lost based on all the stuff that goes on before the contest such as equipment
selection, antenna,design, softeware choice, etc, etc, etc.  Real contesters
make tough choices all of the time.  That is the essence of the game.

W7NI at delphi.com    "If you can't work 'em, it doesn't matter if you can hear 'em

(exception: Does not apply to SWLs.)  Even if you have a receiving preamp,
"if you can't work 'em, it doesn't matter if you can hear 'em."  You will just
hear more sa?? stations you can't work!

>From Ronald D. Rossi" <rrossi at VNET.IBM.COM  Thu Sep 15 21:02:41 1994
From: Ronald D. Rossi" <rrossi at VNET.IBM.COM (Ronald D. Rossi)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 16:02:41 EDT
Subject: Any beginner SSB Sprint teams?

Folks,

Are there any "beginner" Sprint teams forming out there?  I wouldn't
mind joining a team, but I'm a first time sprinter with just over two hours,
a vertical (HF6V), and 100W to spend this weekend.  I fit into the father
of two young (1 and 3 yrs) kids category as well, but I have been promised
freedom from when we return from dinner (about 2130) until 2359 EDT.

73 de N1PBT...ron

>From Danny Eskenazi <0005720561 at mcimail.com>  Thu Sep 15 16:52:00 1994
From: Danny Eskenazi <0005720561 at mcimail.com> (Danny Eskenazi)
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 94 10:52 EST
Subject: NA & SS reporting question (?)
Message-ID: <90940915155209/0005720561PK3EM at mcimail.com>

I know as a CAC member that usually the majority opinion will rule on a 
question before the committee. My question to the PLAYERS in the NA and
the SS contest is:

SHALL A TWO-RADIO OPERATION  (in S/O) BE SO ANNOTATED IN THE RESULTS?

as a traditional one-radio kinda guy, I'm almost always getting waxed
by the 2 radio guys in my favorite events NA and SS. I know......if you
cant beat em join em.....well that IS an option (and Im sure others are
looking at it now too!)....but wouldnt it be fun to see just how one can
do with one radio in a 2-radio dominated box or listing? 

and now for the REAL question:

IF A MAJORITY OF PLAYERS WANT THIS ANNOTATION, WILL IT BE DONE???

I know you 2 radio guys are gonna get pissed for me even asking about
annotation, but Im sure there are alot MORE folks who would be made happy
by such a listing.  (an asterisk is all I ask..)

73   de Danny K7SS @ mcimail.com