[UK-CONTEST] WRTC Selections

[Andy Cook, G4PIQ]

Well - I've certainly been reading this thread with some interest - some of
it sitting in the sun during NFD where I foolishly said at the end - well -
that's the first dry field-day I've done. It did of course rain before we'd
finished packing up!

Just to clarify how the process worked this time; the HFCC contacted me to
ask if I'd be willing to act as team captain, and I then chose Fred, G4BWP
as my team-mate. I chose Fred since he's probably the best mixed mode (and
that's the key) contester I know - though there are a few others real close,
and we've worked well together in the past. So - any East Anglian bias you
can blame on me!

I haven't worked through mapping my results to the CCF scoring matrix or
anything like that, but I think you'll find them competitive - both on SSB
and CW, single op (often hiding as M6T, but not with the big station), and
multi-op from M6T, 9G5AA & XT2DX, with CQWW SSB Europe wins, ARRL CW & SSB
Europe wins, some good world placings on CQWW CW from 9G5 etc.... Fred's
also been fundamental to all these multi-op successes. 

I was very pleased to have been asked, and I'm not aware of what selection
procedure the HFCC used, but I'd have had no issue with any open and
sensible selection process.

Oh yes - does my Scottish parentage help apease the Celtic contingent!

Anyhow - all this aside - Fred & I look forward to working you all on 10
bands and modes from OH in July.

73,

Andy, G4PIQ


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Pritchard [mailto:i.pritchard at ntlworld.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:33 PM
> To: uk-contest-X-contesting.com-POP-1
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] WRTC Selections
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Dear All
> 
>  I think Andrew makes some good points .. in particular "the
> process should be more open." ...... it would be difficult
> to argue with that.
> I don't know what the alternatives are but the league table
> selection idea is flawed.  It would of course enable anyone
> to see at a glance which combination of Station, Antenna
> Farm, QTH and Operator is "best".  It would not necessarily
> reveal who were the operators best suited to the WRTC "level
> playing field" set up.
> 
> 
>  What I do know is that all of the operators chosen so far
> to
>  represent the UK at WRTC have been superb, with a level of
>  skill far greater than mine.  I wish the current team the
>  very best.
> 
>  73 Ian    G3WVG ...
> 
> 
> 
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