[UK-CONTEST] WRTC - CCF Ratings

[Donald Field]

Tim et al

I haven't been involved in selection for this year's WRTC, so I can speak
without any axe to grind. I have, however, been involved in finding UK
operators for some previous WRTC events. The problem has been, rather than
one of finding who scores highest on various criteria, actually finding
anyone who's prepared to go at all, and to represent the UK (it would be
embarrassing if there was no UK team at all, which almost happened on one
occasion!). As it happens, we have always been fortunate in ending up with
representatives who have acquitted themselves well.

It seems to come down to the usual British trait of not wanting to blow
one's own trumpet. Like you, I'd welcome an informal ranking of UK
contesters, as an incentive to stick at it and maybe enter some events that
I would otherwise not bother with. But I wonder whether the idea will get
enough support?

73 Don G3XTT

(PS, on another topic completely, my thanks to those of you who have put
kind comments on this reflector about the IOTA results booklet. It's nice
when one's efforts are appreciated. I'll be putting more about this year's
contest on the Reflector nearer the time but for those of you who didn't
enter last year, you can still see the booklet by downloading it as a PDF
file from the HFCC Web page)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim-M5ACC" <m5acc at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 11:57 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] WRTC - CCF Ratings


> I've been reading through the WRTC site this evening.
>
> I hope I have understood this correctly, it's not all that clear.
> The selection process for op's from the different countries is based on
the
> results over the last 2 years from the IARU, WPX and CQWW contests, taking
> into account their scores as compared to the winning score in the same
> category. They are then scored accordingly and then ranked.
> It's a lot easier to check this out.
>  http://www.wrtc2002.org/ccfrate.htm
>
> This got me curious,
> Who checked out the results from the UK contesters and decided who went?
> Is there a list compiled somewhere showing where everyone came?
> I would love to see a present top 10 who's who from the UK, based on this
> scoring.
> I would also find it interesting to see a table showing the current ranks
of
> the competing WRTC op's, does anyone know if this is available?
>
> It would (for me anyway) add an extra spice to operating in these contests
> knowing that your final score will contribute towards your rank
> If I have understood this correctly I WILL be submitting logs from now on
> for these contests (for what it's worth!).
> In the past I've hardly ever submitted, only the odd one or two. This
would
> sway it for me to submit, and maybe others as well.
>
> Tim-M5ACC.
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