[UK-CONTEST] WRTC Result

[Olof Lundberg]

Yes, congratulations to Andy and Dave. A brilliant performance in a very
even and tough field (and in a hot tent).

This WRTC event was great to watch even at a distance. I really like the
attempt to equalize the stations and also the added element of technology
and station design needed to be competitive. They did all sound very similar
and with those good operators they were very easy and quick to work even
with provocative QRQ with a trailing e on your call. Doing my usual S&P I
very soon learned to recognize them based on signal strength and sound in
general. I found and worked 180+ but had to resort to SSB to get the last 40
or so of those – the first time I have had a mic connected to my K3. All of
those contacts were on 80-40-20. The higher bands,15 and 10, were
frustrating. I spent a fair bit of time listening for the R3s on 15 in
particular but the only one I heard was R3HQ which of course was running
QRO. There was propagation to the west of Moscow such as OH/UA1/ES/YL/LY/EU
and also beyond Moscow to UA6/UA9 but Moscow itself was like in a black hole
on 15 from London. Is this a case of an extra dead zone between 1-hop and
2-hop E propagation? Was there propagation from the West Country/GW or GM to
Moscow on 15 or 10? Or am I deaf?

The only station I could identify was the Australians – and that was on SSB
of course.

Now here is an observation: Dave Sumner / K1ZZ said on the live webcast
tonight that the difference between the winning Russians and the runners-up,
the Estonians, was 0.675% in score.

I couldn’t resist a quick look and even quicker attempt towards an
approximate count of the number of spots recorded on DX summit. The Russians
as R32F had 101, the Estonians/Tonno as R33A 86, a third-place US team R33M
also 86 and Andy/Dave as R37M had 61. How many extra qs would a spot be
worth? Well, with 3k-3k5 qs for the top teams it seems to me that there
might have been only a 20..30 q difference between the top teams? So each
spot only has to be worth 1-2 extra qs and the order at the top might well
have changed. Given the ever increasing number of zombie robotic
click-and-shout cluster-addicted operators today a spot might well be worth
a bit more than that?

Note however that the differences in number of spots are statistically not
that big so there is certainly no suggestion of foul play in my observation.
But it does illustrate how difficult it is to create an absolutely even
playing field.

73 Olof G0CKV

- operating as M5E with a barefoot K3 and a wet string in the suburban
jungle (well, my string is actually pretty dry this summer ...)

On 12 July 2010 22:41, Roger G3SXW <g3sxw at btinternet.com> wrote:

> G4PIQ/G4BUO:
> 9th overall
> 4th highest Mults
> 16th QSOs (average 130 QSOs in each of the 24 hours)
> 5th most accurate of the leading 20 teams
> Fantastic! Top ten! Best ever UK performance in WRTC. Well done Andy &
> Dave.
> 73 de Roger/G3SXW.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin Snow" <justin at g4tsh.demon.co.uk>
> To: "UK-Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 8:16 PM
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] WRTC Result
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>
> > Congratulations to Andy G4PIQ and Dave G4BUO on their 9th place in
> > WRTC!  A fine effort indeed and 4th on mult score too I gather.
> >
> > Justin, G4TSH
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