[CQ-Contest] WRTC 2022 Stations - Why the silence?

[Ed W0YK]

There was disastrous flooding southeast of Bologna where many sites were located just weeks before the event.  Infrastructure was disabled and the OC couldn't even communicate with some sites to assess status.Accordingly, the OC set about on a crash program to secure replacement sites north of Bologna at the very last minute.  A few sites were unfortunately compromised compared to most.  There's nothing to be gained at this point by criticizing.  Everyone understands the goal of making sites as equitable as possible and the OC made the most of an extremely challenging situation. 73,Ed W0YK
-------- Original message --------From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com> Date: 7/24/23  08:35  (GMT-08:00) To: cq-contest at contesting.com Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC 2022 Stations - Why the silence? It's worth remembering that the organizers had to redo the location list on fairly short notice due to fairly disastrous unexpected upset (weather I think).  Considering that, I'd say they did pretty well.73, Pete N4ZROn 7/24/2023 9:08 AM, Richard F DiDonna NN3W wrote:> In his interview Randy mentioned that really nobody had it perfect.> Probably correct.  Plenty of us have given interviews and presentations to> clubs and groups - the narrative on location has been pretty consistent> (although my fellow PVRC club member team seem to have gotten a pretty> cherry spot)....>> 73 Rich NN3W>> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 8:45 AM Edward Sawyer <> EdwardS at advanced-conversion.com> wrote:>>> I saw an interview that K5ZD did on not only his WRTC experience this>> month but also describing the variances of stations and problems that>> occurred.  I have to say that I am surprised by the silence on this forum>> about competitors' experiences after listening to Randy's interview.  Is>> there a reason for the silence?>>>> It sounds like some competitors, like Randy, had an airconditioned B and B>> and were fortunate to have no significant line noise.  Others were>> essentially in hot barns.  Others had varying amounts of line noise that>> caused one group to have to move the mast - antenna assembly Saturday>> morning after having given up on the site the day before and another was>> virtually wiped out by line noise for a number of hours when night>> activated lights came on.>>>> Since the last 3 WRTC were very solid in the "everyone is in the same>> situation" implementation, I guess I am surprised that no one has written>> about it here.>>>> Folks, we only learn from our experiences.  There is nothing gained by>> silence.>>>> Ed  N1UR>> _______________________________________________>> CQ-Contest mailing list>> CQ-Contest at contesting.com>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest>>> _______________________________________________> CQ-Contest mailing list> CQ-Contest at contesting.com> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest_______________________________________________CQ-Contest mailing listCQ-Contest at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest