[SD-User] WAE Contest - SSB

[IZ3NVR at ultradx.com]

Hi Dave...for some aspects I can agree with you but the main point (for me) is WHY YOU PLAY THE CONTEST....

If your target is to gain more DXCCs or IOTAs, depending on the contest, so QTCs are unuseful BUT, if your goal is to earn more points in the contest and trying to improve your score year from year so QTCs are the most important thing especially for little stations.

Actually I do not consider my station as a top contest station, it is very small indeed, but my goal is trying to improve my scores from the previous years and maybe once to win a contest ... but this is much pretending I know :-) ...
I decided to operate mainly ( nearly only) contests. All the dxccs and iotas worked till now ( I am licensed for 3 years in February ) are mainly worked during contests and NOT chasing them but only working them because they would have provided me a point.

73 see you
Stefano IZ3NVR
http://digilander.libero.it/iz3nvr 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: <sd-user at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [SD-User] WAE Contest - SSB


> On 13 Sep 2010 at 17:51, PETER CLEALL wrote:
> 
>> had a listen to a few operators in the WAE and the concept of QTCs still
>> not clear
> 
> You either love QTCs or you hate them, they are certainly something 
> different.
> 
> I don't enter WAE myself as they don't have a QRP section, and in any 
> case the thought of exchanging long strings of QTCs when you have a 
> marginal signal is not really on. And of course whereas you HAVE to use 
> QTCs if you want any reasonable score in the contest, finding out what 
> others have worked from their station achieves nothing in your own 
> 'countries worked' standing, so the information is only useful for its 
> contest purposes. Furthermore under current conditions a contest where 
> you can only work stations outside of Europe means it is very hard work 
> with a small station.
> 
> Many enjoy the challenge of QTCs in these events, but they do nothing 
> for me. I liken them to Mornington Crescent - when you are waiting in a 
> pileup to work some exotic DX just as you are about to get your chance 
> somebody calls out 'QTC?' and you have to sit and twiddle your thumbs 
> for a while.
> 
> 73 Dave G3YMC
> 
> http://www.davesergeant.com
> 
>