[CQ-Contest] Clarification from DL1MGB

[brian coyne]

Chris,
As one who criticised your committees decision to merge the assisted and unassisted classes for single ops  on this Forum, I applaud your decision to now reverse that.decision - thank you.


Whilst there may be other issues this was the important one. As a traditional single ops we seek no more than to be left to operate in the manner which we have always done and to compete with our peers.who operate in the same manner Joining us with assisted ops would have destroyed that...

The 10% weighting in favour of the unassisted  class appears to be very equitable and fair. Concerns regarding stifling technology and cheating do seem to be exaggerated. There is no doubt that by far  the greatest area of cheating is illegal power and that will occur probably equally over the the two single op classes.


I would like to thank your committee for taking on the task of running WRTC 2018 and wish you every success..
73,  Brian  C4Z / 5B4AIZ..



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      From: Christian Janssen DL1MGB <dl1mgb at wrtc2018.de>
 To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
 Sent: Thursday, 18 December 2014, 16:29
 Subject: [CQ-Contest] Clarification from DL1MGB
   
Hello,

after reviewing the discussions and the criticism we received from contesters worldwide, we had an internal discussion and decided the following changes.

We will split the Single Operator categories into Unassisted and Assisted. Unassisted Single Operators will still have a weighting factor of 1.0. Assisted Single Operators weighting factor will be changed to 0.9. The reduced weighting factor accomodates the fact that there will be no assisted operation during the WRTC competition in 2018.

All other rules stay unchanged and are final. Please understand that further changes of the qualifying rules would have a deep impact on the balance of the rules requiring the re-design of the entire rule system from scratch.

The latest version of the qualifying rules can be downloaded at http://www.wrtc2018.de.

Good luck to all qualifiers! Nearly two months to go!

73s Chris DL1MGB
President WRTC2018 Organizing Committee
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