[CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying

[Maarten van R]

Good points Tim.

73, Maarten PD2R


Op za 7 jul. 2018 om 15:55 schreef Timothy Coker via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com>

> I think what’s most interesting is the guys I know who typically win don’t
> spend a lot of time complaining... they spend a lot of time working at what
> makes them winners.
> I can also think of some people who won/win that don’t have deep pockets
> at all.
> Some of the best operators don’t actually have big stations. Not taking
> away from the big station owners at all, as some of them are great
> operators themselves. However, many are willing to let the latest up and
> coming great operators take their station seats to show what can be done.
> It makes sense to me because it takes a lot of time and effort to either
> build or work to pay for others to build something expensive. That same
> time is thus not spent on honing operating skills.
> Very similar to how many athletes aren’t rich until after (and not for
> all) they have worked so very hard to win and are given noteriety.
> If a guy wants to remote or travel into my area and he beats me, so be
> it... time for me to get better. Or maybe I don’t want to put in the same
> operating skills effort that he did and thus I’ll just hope he doesn’t
> return.
> Competition is great... it shows how hard we are willing to work, or not.
> Tim / N6WIN.
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
>
>
> On Friday, July 6, 2018, 14:45, Jim via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:
>
> I have a somewhat different perspective, being an Ohio snowbird who spends
> half the year in Florida. As a practical matter I could not qualify without
> a lot of travel or remote operating from W8. And I’m not that stupid to
> head north from Florida in February  :-)
>
> I had my shot at WRTC in 2014 (as N1U with partner K9NW), but I didn’t
> compete to qualify for 2018, and don’t see me trying to qualify for future
> WRTCs, so don’t take these comments as being self serving.
>
> If a W6 resident wants to operate from W1, let him do so, comparing his
> scores with other W1 entrants. And conversely, if a guy living in W1 is
> crazy enough to want to operate CQWW from W6, thinking the qualifying
> competition there might be less, why stop him? Again, compare his W6 score
> with other W6 scores, and let the WRTC qualifying points go into his home
> W1 account.
>
> So long as a person is a legitimate resident of his qualifying area, why
> stop him from operating from anywhere in the world, whether in person or
> remotely? I don’t have a problem to allow someone like LZ4AX to qualify
> from W3, but I would not let people become “Africans” solely by virtue of a
> bunch of operating from zone 33.
>
>
> 73  -  Jim    K8MR
>
> p.s.  Keep in mind the motto of the Florida Contest Group:  Sooner or
> later, you’ll be one of us!
>
>
>
>
> > On Jul 6, 2018, at 4:16 PM, WW3S <ww3s at zoominternet.net> wrote:
> >
> > A west coast ham, operating a remote station with antennas in Maine,
> should be competing as if he/she were physically in Maine.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On Jul 5, 2018, at 11:56 PM, David Siddall <hhamwv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> A W6 ham resident in California that operates a station on the east
> coast,
> >> whether by physical or remote means, could not qualify to be a team
> leader
> >> for the WRTC2018.  Rule 7.5 - 7.7, subject to Rule 6.2.
> >>
> >> 73, Dave K3ZJ
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Carol Richards <n2mm at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I agree....where you operate _from_ should determine what region you
> >>> compete in. A W6 in California operating a remote station on the East
> coast
> >>> should not be grouped with other East coast stations to qualify for
> WRTC.
> >>> This remote category is getting out of hand.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Carol
>
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