[CQ-Contest] Fwd: WRTC 18 Qualifying

[David Siddall]

Igor,

The submitted logs demonstrate that RDXC is VERY competitive for RU
stations and ARRL is VERY competitive for U.S. stations, but much less so
outside their respective countries notwithstanding rules differences.
That's precisely why they should have been treated as equivalents
notwithstanding that ARRL draws 30 percent more logs than RDXC. In 2014,
RDXC 3193, ARRL 4156 logs (average CW/SSB).

They both are well-run and fun contests, but not matches for the truly
worldwide competition that CQWW & CQWPX draw; and IARU is, after all, the
foundation contest for WRTC, maybe competitors should demonstrate mastery
of the summer propagation conditions that they will face during the WRTC
itself.

But that now is history.  WRTC2018 elected not to reconsider their rules,
so enjoy and see you on the bands.

73,

Dave K3ZJ



On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Igor Sokolov <ua9cdc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave,
> Can you support your statement regarding the number of participants in
> RDXC, IARU and WPX with solid figures?
> ARRL, that was part of 2014 WRTYC selection, for me is truly regional
> contest where unlike RDXC we can only work US and VE and therefore pretty
> dull from areas where propagation to NA last only few hours. In RDXC you
> can work any one anywhere wich does not  fit the discription of a regional
> contest but rather WW contest.
> I have done ARRL couple of times from the very well equipped setup with
> multiple stacks to only make 500-600 QSOs in 48 hours while 3000 QSO in 24
> hours in RDXC is not uncommon from almost anywhere.
>
> 73, Igor UA9CDC