[CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying

[Jeff Clarke]

When K4BAI and I were competitors in Brazil in 2006 our qualifying 
region included all of W1-W4 with only two teams from that region. Talk 
about a tough region to have to qualify in! I can tell you that 
propagation in Georgia is nothing close to what it is in New England so 
the odds of us making it was very slim even if you had a super station.

In our case people ahead of us in the standings had to drop out for 
various reasons and others were teammates with someone else. They made 
it down to #7  in the East Region where K4BAI was and John picked me as 
his teammate.  I guess the moral of this story is just to try your best 
to have a good qualifying score and you might get lucky like we did.

Jeff KU8E



On 7/8/2018 09:17 AM, David Siddall wrote:
> For the record, in the WRTC2018 selection area that includes New England,
> only one of the three winners operated in New England.
>
> One operated from the middle of Pennsylvania (225 miles WEST of New York
> City).  The other operated from the suburbs of Washington, DC.
>
> Furthermore, the Pennsylvania op lived in Boston and traveled TO
> mid-Pennsylvania to operate in contests.
>
> Probably a good thing that these ops didn't realize that they had "no
> chance in hell" to win.
>
> (Complete WRTC2018 qualification final rankings are at:
> http://wrtc2018.de/index.php/en/competition/standings-2.
>
> 73, Dave K3ZJ
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 9:49 PM, rjairam at gmail.com <rjairam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I’m looking at my case. Under the current criteria I have not a shot in
>> hell. Mostly because I’m competing with W1 who has an obvious geographic
>> advantage. When it was aligned with US Call districts it was a bit easier,
>> but I didn’t really try to qualify then.
>>
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