[CQ-Contest] Re: WRTC Teams

[Martti Laine]

Dear Rob:

Just reading quickly your mail before heading to my May.01
activities. I can also see that your mail is for public so my
response would be on the same way.

We have indeed considered all elements of the past WRTC
event and hopefully found some improvement areas particularly
in the area of the U.S. team make up.. We hope that our
approach would be acceptable as such and obviously that
the final outcome would prove that.

The element that we have not even considered is that this is
the competition of country teams. The global WRTC committee
that  we are aligned with, has never even considered on making
this completely "free style" what comes to the country aspect of
each team. So in this area we may have to disappoint you -
the teams will be formed on citizens and/or permanent residents
of each invited country.

We hope that the outcome of the event will be satisfactory - both
being another  wonderful experience for people coming here and
also another event that we Finns can be proud of.

Thanks for your mail.

Martti, OH2BH




-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Shapiro - ND3A <robert.n.shapiro at att.net>
To: martti.laine at kolumbus.fi <martti.laine at kolumbus.fi>;
cq-contest at contesting.com <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Date: 29 April, 2001 14:52
Subject: WRTC Teams


 >Hi Martti.  I know of at least one person who was left out of last year's
 >competition who should have had a chance to participate.  This individual
 >did not belong to one of the contest clubs that had invitations sent to and
 >did not get invited by one of the chosen in that individual's continent to
 >be a team member.  This individual was wanted as a team member by an
 >individual from another continent but could not be done because WRTC rules
 >prohibited mixing of team members from different continents.  I believe
 >this is not the proper way to proceed next time and should be rectified
 >appropriately to get the most qualified participants.  WRTC is a "team"
 >championship and not a continental or country championship!
 >
 >I propose that if the initial personnel are chosen as before based on
 >continental statistics, then team members should be available from anywhere
 >worldwide and not limited to the same continent.
 >
 >Thanks, Rob - ND3A
 >robert.n.shapiro at att.net
 >
 >


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