[CQ-Contest] SO2R Skills and WRTC

Chris Hurlbut chriskl9a at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 22:06:13 PDT 2011


IMHO SO2R skills were *everything* in WRTC 2010.

-Chris KL9A

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Bill Tippett <btippett at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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