[WWYC] WRTC 2006 & Young Teams

[Chris Hurlbut]

Seems all of the previous WRTC's had the same problem.  Everyone
complaining that those in less fortunate QTH's get screwed in the
selection.

WRTC is only one contest.  Operate the best you can in all the other
contests.  Let your scores show others how good or not good of an op you
are.  It's not like it goes unnoticed when an SM (or whatever) places
relatively high in a CQWW or something.  Maybe you need to make friends
with someone who WILL get picked, and be their teammate.  

Or just go to PY and sit on the beach and drink some beer.  That sounds
like a FB plan too. :)

-Chris KL9A

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 21:04 +0200, Teemu, SM0WKA wrote:
> You are completely right!
> 
> WRTC today only permits those with already good propagation or those with
> big bucks that can afford to travel to good propagation to participate.
> The only way to make WRTC an -even- event is to invite all countries that
> like to participate into this event, then the national society or contest
> clubs can decide through elections who goes. 
> 
> Still to be realistic there would need to be a demand that there are at
> least a certain amount of contesters active in that country, say 20 active
> stations. Then you can avoid teams participating for Ducie island or
> whatever.
> 
> Countries with a lot of participants could get the opportunity to send more
> teams.
> 
> The thought of using the personal scores is good but this rule should
> instead be applied within the country itself, also in some sort giving those
> who live in "black-holes" a handicap on their score.
> 
> I think this is something for the next WRTC organizers to reflect over, to
> me it seems strange that there are like 15 teams from US only participating
> with the rest...
> 
> 73s de Teemu SM0WKA - SM0W
> 
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: wwyc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:wwyc-bounces at contesting.com] För
> SM3WMV Mikael
> Skickat: den 8 juni 2005 15:01
> Till: wwyc at contesting.com
> Ämne: Re: [WWYC] WRTC 2006 & Young Teams
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Looking at simply contest scores are useless. A good score doesnt always 
> tell who is a good operator or not. I mean, a guy from Italy with a dipole 
> can kick my ass if we get aurora, even though I have yagis. I don't have any
> 
> good ideas what to do with these selections. I guess that if you consider 
> stuff as location, propagation, equipment etc you can compare scores. 
> Otherwise it's useless since we'll have three teams consisting of guys from 
> Portugal, Spain and Italy. There is no way we up north would even get a 
> chance, not that I am interested but anyway.
> 
> Just my five cents...
> 
> //Mike (SM3WMV // SM3W)
> 
> >From: "Matt IZ3EYZ" <iz3eyz at virgilio.it>
> >To: <wwyc at contesting.com>
> >Subject: [WWYC] WRTC 2006 & Young Teams
> >Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 12:18:24 +0200
> >
> >Hi all.
> >
> >As some of you already posted, WRTC 2006 'll open to 3 young teams.
> >Well surpised!!!
> >Despite several chats I had with some Italian I 'm considering this new 
> >opportunity....Even if a team-mate isn't requested when you make your 
> >application I 'd like to count on someone for this project, considering PY 
> >isn't across the street. In other words I prefer to have a Team before 
> >starting everything.
> >So if you 'd like to take part in WRTC 2006, let me know your plans, ideas,
> 
> >thoughts.....
> >Otherwise I 'll try the usual selection criteria based on your contest 
> >scores only.
> >You can post on this reflector or simply send me an e-mail.
> >
> >Matt.EYZ
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