[CQ-Contest] Category hopping

[Trent Sampson]

WRTC Points ? It is not a factor unless there is something missing - Both are in Africa. 
CQWW CW 1000 Points for Single op
M2 Weight 0.8 or max 800
=1000*0.8*(32,229,150/45,000,000)=800*.7162=572.962
As they moved from M2 to MM BUT did not beat the D4C M2 Score 
MM Weight 0.7 or 700=1000*0.7*(32,229,150/45,000,000)=700*.7162=501.34 Points. 
So they are 71 points worse off - 
http://www.wrtc2018.de/images/PDF/WRTC2018_Team_Selection_Criteria.pdf
Regards 


TrentVK4TS PO Box 275 Mooloolaba 4557 0408497550
Please note I no longer use the WIA email address where possible owing to it blocking emails from sites such as VK Logger and ARRL.

> From: ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 20:43:00 -0400
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Category hopping
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> On 12/08/2015 10:21 AM, Maarten van Rossum wrote:
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> Personally I think CR3L did something clever and kudos to them for winning
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> M/M with a M/2 set-up (if that is in fact what they did).
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> Clever ? Hardly. You can argue whether what they did was ethical or not, but
> there is nothing clever about changing categories. 
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> I reserve the use of "clever" for teams like CN2AA and P33W, and the
> pre-contest preparation by N6MJ for his ZF2MJ win. 
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> 73,
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> Steve, N2IC
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> I agree with Steve, N2IC, Jeff KU8E and Kevan N4XL….and some others who’s
> calls I have now forgotten.
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> Posts are (presumably) made to 3830 in good faith.  If someone uses that
> information to swap categories to beat a fellow competitor after the
> contest, it’s not clever, it’s underhanded & greasy.
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> What other competition do you enter in life choosing your category after the
> results, or perceived results, are already in?
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> Personally, if I discovered a fellow VE1, 9 or VY2 had changed their
> category after seeing my score or category on 3830 to get a leg up on me,
> the word “clever” would NOT be the word I would use to describe them.
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> (Granted, normally I am not a contender….but that aside)
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> Note that I have not commented on the CR3L team. I don’t have any facts from
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> I do notice some post scores to CQWW “at the last minute” with comments on
> 3830 to follow.  I can only surmise these guys are jostling for position in
> the WRTC race.  If they are “clever” by category shopping, I do not hold
> them in a very high regard.  I posit these guys could care less what I think
> and may just do the “win at all cost” thing anyways.
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> I like to send my Cabrillo file at the end of the contest (like 5 minutes
> after) or as soon as I wake up the next morning, changing nothing.  I often
> will post my 3830 results immediately after a contest.
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> If I am naïve and gullible, so be it.  I can sleep like a rock knowing
> perhaps I am not as “clever” as the next.
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> Clever.
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> Yeah, right.
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> Mike VE9AA
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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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