[WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions

[Richard DiDonna NN3W]

>----- 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.

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?

>Two more questions occur to me after re-reading the TL selection criteria:
>1.  There is no mention in the WRTC 2010 TL selection criteria of a bonus 
>for operators who achieve a World High score in any of the major 
>international >contests.  Was this an intentional decision by the rules 
>committee  or simply an oversight, since a bonus for a top world score was 
>included in prior WRTC >selection criteria?  Comments?

I'll leave that up to the folks at WRTC 2010 to address, but I'd say that 
what transpired in 2006 shouldn't be automatic precedent for 2010.  Indeed, 
contests like EUHF and RDXC now exist but did not before.

>2.  CQWW and CQWPX results for year 2005 were not  considered in TL 
>selection computations for WRTC 2006 because the results for these major CQ 
> >events would not be available until after the deadline for submission of 
>WRTC 2006 TL applications.
>The chart of eligible events for WRTC 2010 does not include the 2005 CQWW 
>or CQ WPX contests.  Since the CQWW and CQ WPX are viewed by most 
> >operators worldwide as THE PREMIERE international radiosporting events of 
>the contest season, skipping and/or ignoring the results from any calender 
>year for >these events would be most unfortunate, given the skill and 
>effort expended by serious contenders worldwide in these important 
>contests.
>To maintain consistency from WRTC to WRTC, it would be appropriate to 
>include scores for the 2005 CQWW and 2005 CQ WPX  in the WRTC 2010 list of 
> >TL selection  events since this would eliminate skipping a full year of 
>achievement in these important events.   Comments?

I'm not seeing how a consistency issue is needed.  WRTC 2010 begins contests 
with contests in 2006 (and very late at that).  Rolling back over a year 
before (including a contest over 15 months before the start of WRTC 2006) 
seems a little far fetched.   Indeed, I would go the other way and disallow 
IARU 2006 since many likely participants could not compete on their own 
behest as they were already at WRTC 2006.  I'd further move the ARRL DX 2009 
and put them in the mix since we'll have the result by August 2009 - a full 
year before the WRTC 2010.

73 Rich NN3W