[CQ-Contest] WRTC 2026 Selection Criteria published / Email reflector open

[Lee Volante]

Hi Joe,

Good question. For the team setting the rules it's been a question about
"competitiveness" and how we are trying to measure it. From the contest
results data we've looked at, there are often (but not always) more
'serious entries' and more tightly grouped scores at the top of the tables
in the high power categories compared with the low power ones.

That should mean that for a particular operator's abilities and scores,
they would *likely* achieve a *proportionately better* result compared with
their category leader when operating low power compared with high power.
Hence to try to be fair when awarding WRTC qualification points, there is a
reduction in the available points for LP entrants.

There are many great low power and QRP contesters, but we recognise that
most of our contesting heroes, and where most contesting careers develop
towards, is HP contesting - more QSOs, more multipliers, and more
competition to be #1.

It's not a perfect science and that's why WRTC rules do evolve and change.
Those weightings for 2026 are actually closer to parity than they have been
in several previous WRTC. From our data and listening to feedback we feel
this was a correct change.

73,

Lee G0MTN

On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, 15:59 Joe, <nss at mwt.net> wrote:

> I haven't dug deep into the possible reasoning yet. but something that
> jumped out at me right away is
> "SO HP / SO LP Unassisted categories with a weighting of 1.0 for HP, and
> 0.95 for LP. "
>
> If I understand this correctly running low power lowers your score.
>
> huh?
>
> Joe WB9SBD
>
> On 8/25/2023 4:20 AM, Lee Volante wrote:
>
> The WRTC 2026 Organising Committee is very pleased to announce the
> Selection Criteria for entrants, which is now published on our websitehttps://wrtc2026.org
>
> Also now available online are some Questions and Answers and a video
> explaining our reasoning and aims. We have taken on lots of feedback and
> useful suggestions whilst designing the qualification process.
>
> We are also announcing the opening of an email reflector to discuss all
> aspects of WRTC 2026, which can be joined by visitinghttps://groups.io/g/wrtc2026-discuss
>
> 73,
>
> Lee G0MTN
> on behalf of the WRTC 2026 Organising Committee
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