[CQ-Contest] How to make WRTC more like the Olympics?

[steve.root at culligan4water.com]

For most folks, WRTC is a non-event. It doesn't matter if team leaders are picked by contest clubs or by the current (and deeply flawed) "qualification" process, there are a significant number of excellent operators who have no chance whatsoever of participating in this event. July is a great time to go fishing.

73 Steve K0SR

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Smith VE9AA [mailto:ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 04:13 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How to make WRTC more like the Olympics?

I don't want to state the obvious, but I will anyways. I like to creatediscussion. As well as being a good op, to get to WRTC you have to either have deeppockets, live close to a big contest station who will host you or have a big(or VERY big) station of your own.(or be lucky enough to live in a WRTC area with all average to a littleabove average station sizes in that area) Qualifying for WRTC is not a fair process. Yes, on the day of the event,it's very fair, but a lot of the folks there (perhaps not all.it dependswhere you live) haveeither travelled to many big (or rare) stations, have a large-ish closebystation they can pilot, or own one of their own. Let me be abundantly clear that I certainly do not begrudge those that haveSUPER stations on the salt water and can work EU on 80m 2.5hrs beforesunset, (I can honestly say if I had the $$, I would do the same, so I'm nohypocrite ) but please don't anyone believe that the guys on the field haveall competed using the same sized stations (or even SIMILAR sized) stations,in order to be sitting in that WRTC tent seat. That's just not reality. Mike VE9AA Mike, Coreen & CoreyKeswick Ridge, NB _______________________________________________CQ-Contest mailing listCQ-Contest at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest