[CQ-Contest] Ideas for WRTC 2004

[Chris Blakely]

Mike,Rich,
"The real answer is probably something like it doesn't matter because
> no one would send a ssb only team anyway and the strategy at this
> level of competition is simply run best rate for score. Having to balance
> between CW and SSB is a nuisance and not necessary,"

    I may be wrong but is there not a CW pileup competition that figures as
part of the final score?  There is an spreadsheet on the WRTC web site that
shows K5TJ & K1TO as being the highest scorers in the pileup competition.  I
think that in the last WRTC this score was also part of the final standings,
so that a strictly ssb would suffer badly.

Chris, AB1R


----- Original Message -----
From: "KL7RA" <kl7ra at blizzard.gcgo.nasa.gov>
To: "[Contest Reflector]" <cq-contest at contesting.com>; "Mike Gilmer, N2MG"
<n2mg at eham.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Ideas for WRTC 2004


> >Considering that the OJs ran 100W to a rather low tribander, I have to
> >believe that it was difficult for a "SSB" team to compete. ///snip
>
> >-Mike N2MG
>
> You're probably right Mike, but during the last few hours of the test
> their SSB rates were around five a minute, 300 hour, or more and
> I was having some difficulty cracking their ssb piles. The usual
> thinking is to double the points for CW and the Finns decided not
> to do this.
>
> My thinking is a super ssb op would have some advantage over the
> CW op simply because he could go faster, there are more ssb stations
> on and more mults. When the rate falls due 100 watts/ low antenna,  you
> change bands.
>
> The real answer is probably something like it doesn't matter because
> no one would send a ssb only team anyway and the strategy at this
> level of competition is simply run best rate for score. Having to balance
> between CW and SSB is a nuisance and not necessary,
>
> Rich KL7RA
>
>
>
>
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