[SECC] WRTC Scores

[Bill Coleman]

On 7/16/02 10:25 PM, Dick Bentley at k2uft@yahoo.com wrote:

>AA4LR wondered out loud how N5TJ/K1TO popped back into
>first place - part of the answer is in the fine print
>at the bottom of the final results panel:  "Some
>softwares used by teams did not count multipliers
>correctly.  This is the reason why some claimed scores
>were changed just after the contest on the
>scoreboard."

Huh. As I read the rules, didn't the teams have to all use the same 
software? (I think there were two approved programs)

>It would be interesting to get John & Bill's
>perspective on the vast difference in scores.  The
>operators were 104 of the world's finest, the stations
>were supposedly equal in performance and yet there is
>a difference of almost a million points between number
>1 team and number 52 team.  Other than software
>differences, what were the causes?

Or better yet, what are N5TJ/K1TO doing to remain on top? What do they do 
that others don't?



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
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