[UK-CONTEST] The writing on the wall-part 2

[Ian White GM3SEK]

Dave Lawley wrote:
>
>Contests like WAE, RDXC, WPX RTTY have removed my choice. There is no 
>section in which I'm comfortable to operate, so I don't. You're a 
>member of the CQ WW advisory committee and I'm very alarmed to see you 
>supporting the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel mode in this way.
>
>This argument has been done to death many times on uk-contest and, 
>especially, on cq-contest. And every time, certainly on cq-contest, the 
>majority are clearly AGAINST merging assisted and unassisted categories.
>

A couple of observations:

1. The CQ RTTY contests are "under separate management"  from the 
others, at least to some extent - perhaps Roger could clarify.

2. CQ *WW* RTTY still has separate assisted and unassisted sections (as 
of Sep 2006; we don't yet know what the 2007 rules will bring).

Cluster access in WPX RTTY last weekend was sometimes a liability. 
Because "everybody's a mult" in WPX, the bandmap was over-filled with 
spots, many of which were not workable in Europe - way too much 
information to be of any use. It would probably have been better to 
start with the cluster off, and build up one's own bandmaps the 
traditional way, by S&Ping unassisted.



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73 from Ian GM3SEK