[CQ-Contest] Life (and WRTC qualification) ain't fair

[Hank Greeb]

I personally know that, when I go out for a Michigan or Ohio State QSO 
Party, and stumble across a site which has 50 to 100' HAAT at ground 
level in at least 3 directions, my 40' portable mast and wire antenna 
will do MUCH MUCH better than at home or at a lower portable location.  
It certainly doesn't hurt to find a county where there hasn't been a 
fixed station entry in the past 2 or 3 years.  Under such conditions, 
even a dolt operator like me has won the QRP arena of both MiQP and 
OHQP.  I'm sure I couldn't have held a candle to the much higher scores 
in the category when K8DD and W8MJ and others would decide to have a 
"Battle of the QRP stations" in the MiQP with their much larger 
antennae, etc.

So the complaints about "it ain't fair" have a very true basis. BUT, it 
seems to me that there "Aint no way" that there can be a level playing 
field, with operating skill as the only variable.

72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of thet ime


On 12/9/2014 12:00 PM, cq-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 09:12:47 -0400
> From: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC2018 Qualifying
>
> Qualifying should be based on the same philosophy. An excellent operator using a typical home station will never outperform someone in the same region driving a contest superstation. Perhaps there should be score reductions based on antenna height and number of elements?
>
> Ed VE4EAR
>
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> Couldn't agree more Ed.