[CQ-Contest] Multiple Contest Callsigns

[Geoffrey Way]

Hans wrote: "What's not to like about this idea?"

What's not to like about it is, WRTC will officially DISALLOW using any and 
ALL of your scores with respect to WRTC's ranking/scorekeeping for that 
event-- they will not count toward improving your WRTC ranking. You get 
ZERO, ZIP, NADA, ZILCH.

The sponsor/organizer still recognizes and counts your scores, it's just 
WRTC that will ignore them.

I've proposed to WRTC already that one ought to be able to ask in advance, 
ONLY ONCE, WITHOUT ANY OPTION TO CHANGE, to have a particular operation be 
the ONLY one allowed to count, so that one cannot "harvest" whatever result 
worked out best after the fact. After-the-fact score selection was how this 
rule came about originally I am told, as there were possible abuses in the 
past.

My proposition will not be an option for 2014, but they have offered to 
pass the idea on for the next WRTC.

So, as it stands now, one must make a choice between their personal 
aspirations, or their desire to strengthen the level of contesting activity 
as a whole. The way WRTC adjudicates their ranking at present, it's every 
man for himself, and I wish it were otherwise. There are 2 occasions where 
I have already set my aspirations aside. But I don't operate at that skill 
level (yet) where it really matters, anyway.

Another by-product is my WRTC ranking is now skewed from this, and I'll 
have to re-calculate what it could have been to actually see where I would 
rank if it were otherwise. I'll look forward to doing some long division by 
hand... ;)

-- KA1IOR

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