[CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Qualifying

[K8MR via CQ-Contest]

IMHO the Germans have come up with pretty good qualifying criteria.


I do have two suggestions for our German friends:


1. For W/VE stations, the ARRL DX contests should count for a full 1000 points.Over here it is just as serious of a competitive contest as is CQWW.  A lower maximum for those outside W/VE is still reasonable.


2. The out-of-home-region area rule should be relaxed to allow those operating from outside their home region but within a certain distance of their home (150 km?) to not be restricted by the out of area rule. Somebody who lives in DC but operates from a station a few km away in VA should not be treated as an out of area operator. (In this example he would still be ranked against the other stations in W4, not those in W1-2-3).


73  -  Jim  K8MR


    


-----Original Message-----
From: 4O3A <4o3a at t-com.me>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 8:43 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Qualifying


Hi to all,

I hope that some comments will be considered and Team selection criteria 
will be changed a bit?

For me and all contesters whom I discussed with, obvious problem is 
having to short selection period.

Ranking 12 contests , and making selection criteria in the way that 
mostly SOAB are to be done is to much. Organizer counts seasons 
2015/2016, and not counting 2017? None of us can't see reasonable 
explanation for such decision. We all suffered for qualifying for WRTC 
2014 in Boston, dedicating ourself to make 12 good scores, and we had 3 
years for it. It was really hard - ask anyone from EU or USA who did it. 
Now we have only two years for same number of contests?

I have station capable to win and to assure place in qualification. I am 
enough dedicated to spend unreasonable amount of time for hobby, but 
honestly, it becomes to be so demanding and overmuch.

My proposal should be to:
-Extend qualification period on 2017
-Calculate eight best scores

It will give more chance to more contesters with average stations, and 
will demand not quantity of scores - will demand higher scores and 
quality. Simple.

I know that this will be probably ignored, but is is common opinion of 
many contesters and previous WRTC participants.

Also, as organizer has full right to make selection criteria whatever he 
likes, it is better to invite teams by whatever criteria you like, 
instead having bad selection criteria.

Now I am curious to see rules. Hope our German friends will be more open 
for rules with more rooms for technical improvements. Hope all will 
agree that this aspect of contesting is very important as well as 
operating skills?

73
Ranko