[UK-CONTEST] Scoring up ready for WRTC-2006!

[Nigel G3TXF]

Hullo UK Contesters,

As a purely academic exercise (I'm not in the right league for even thinking about trying to take part in WRTC-06!) I thought I'd try to work through the seemingly tortuous calculations of the "scoring system" that intended UK participants will need to go through, if they want to take part in WRTC-2006.

We in the UK are in what WRTC-2006 have defined as "Europe-Region-One". 

The UK (all call-areas) is wrapped up in this Europe-Region-One with EI, CT/CU, EA/EA6, F/TK, I/IS/IT, 9H, S5, 9A, T9, YU, LZ, Z3, SV, TA1, T7, ZA and 3A). In order to be selected as a "Team Leader", intended entrants need to be one of the five highest scoring entries in their Region. In other words in order to represent the UK your "score" will be need to be one of the top five from contesters submitting entries from this group of countries. The five Team Leaders then get to choose an operator partner to make up the Team.

[Please see the WRTC-2006 web-site for the complete details. My objective here is only to summarize the amount of effort needed to compute your "score".]

The WRTC-2006 have provided a spreadsheet which is no more than a collection of un-linked cells. You need to do all the computations yourself within the spreadsheet. 

The most time-consuming parts are (a) remembering what contests you have entered, (b) finding the published results of the contests that you want to use as the basis of your score and (c) working out what your ranking was against other participants from this notional Europe-Region-One (within your category). This last item can take a long time, as for some contests you will need to compile a separate results table just using Europe-Region-One countries! 

It has taken me a good three hours to find the scores, work out my rankings (within Europe-Region-One) and complete the WRTC-2006 spreadsheet. I have done the computation for eight contests (the maximum that you are allowed to claim).

Not that it will mean anything to anyone, but my score (based on eight contests) is 2,313 points. This could improve slightly once the CQWW CW 2004 results are out next month (when I would hopefully replace a lower scoring contest with a higher scoring one, within my group of eight contests).

If anyone is interested I'd be happy to forward them the spreadsheet that I have used to compute my score. I have put "Comment" boxes against the computation cells in order to remind myself of the data that I used to calculate the score for each of the claimed contests.

Based on my own workings, it would appear that the greatest competition with our Europe-Region-One group will come from S5, YU, LZ and (to a lesser extent) F and CT. Good luck to anyone who wishes to take part. Let's hope that there is indeed a UK Team at WRTC-2006.

73 - Nigel G3TXF

P.S : There appears to be a slight error on the WRTC-2006 Selection Parameters table: a 0.60 weighting factor is shown under the HQ section of IARU for CW, but not for Mixed or SSB.