[WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions

[Alexander Avramov]

Well, if it's so easy to win some remote area even 4 times are too many. 
This definitely is a problem that the organizers have to address somehow.

73, Alex LZ4AX

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
>
>
>   
>> 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:
>>     
>>>> ----- 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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