[CQ-Contest] SO2R Skills and WRTC

[RT Clay]

For 50% of the operators at WRTC the only qualification needed is to be a friend of a team leader...no SO2R required :)

Tor
N4OGW

--- On Fri, 7/1/11, Bill Tippett <btippett at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> From: Bill Tippett <btippett at alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] SO2R Skills and WRTC
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Friday, July 1, 2011, 3:49 PM
> NQ6N wrote:
> 
>  > Nobody can deny that a SO2R takes great skill and so
> we
> respect ops who win this way.
> 
>          Just an observation
> regarding SO2R and WRTC.  IMHO SO2R
> skills have nothing to do with WRTC skills where each
> operator
> uses 1 radio on 1 band at a time.  Yet most
> qualification contests
> are dominated by SO2R results since that's the best way to
> win
> multiband events.
> 
>          Isn't this is
> analogous to having the qualifying heats for
> F1 racing based on NASCAR results?  Doesn't make sense
> to me.
> 
>                
>              
>    73,  Bill  W4ZV 
> 
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