[WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions

[kh6nd at hawaii.rr.com]

Come on down, brother.

Just let us know what category you're planning on making your 1.5 
million points in, and we'll be happy to make sure that there is ample 
activity in said category for your "easy" coast entry.

KH6ND


Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:

>I'm fully aware that my score is compared to another station in my same 
>geographic area.  But theoretically, I could run off to the South Pacific, 
>make 1.5 million points and win the geographic area 8 times, and I could 
>then apply that score to my easy coast entry.
>
>73 Rich NN3W
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Alexander Avramov" <lz4ax at psu.edu>
>To: <wrtc2006 at wrtc2006.com>
>Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 10:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions
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>>Rich,
>>
>>if you go back to the rules and re-read them it would stop sound so
>>reasonable. You are competing not against John's scores from P40W but
>>against the points he earned after his score was normalized to the best
>>score from that area - SA or Caribbean. Your score gets normalized to
>>K5ZD's score :) And then you compare the points. As far as I see it,
>>this procedure doesn't give John any advantage over you. Well, unless
>>you think that down there the competition isn't that tough as it is here 
>>:)
>>
>>73, Alex LZ4AX
>>
>>Richard DiDonna NN3W wrote:
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>>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>From: John Crovelli
>>>>To: ra3auu at srr.ru ; wrtc2006 at wrtc2006.com
>>>>Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:37 PM
>>>>Subject: Re: [WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions
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>>>>
>>>>Hi Harry,
>>>>Thank you for your quick response to my quesiton.  I am naturally
>>>>disappointed to see a  rule that limits consideration to only 4 DX 
>>>>contest
>>>>scores since nearly >100% of my own DX contest entries occur from a DX
>>>>location and not my home country, so in effect I and others in a 
>>>>similiar
>>>>situation are penalized for our off ?>shore efforts.
>>>>
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>>>Honestly, it sounds reasonable to me.  Why should I, in the eastern USA, 
>>>be
>>>competing against scores posted by somebody from a different part of the
>>>world?  Theoretically, I could run off to some random place in the 
>>>Pacific
>>>for 8 contests, run up a decent score, and then come back and claim them 
>>>as
>>>top scores for the east coast.  Does that seem to be a reasonable action 
>>>for
>>>those hams who choose to stay at home in their relevant geographic area 
>>>and
>>>compete at home?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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