[WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions

[Scott Robbins]

--- Igor Booklan SRR <ra3auu at srr.ru> wrote:

> Hi Tom!
> 
> I understand your point but have a look from a different point of view
> .. from your countrymen point of view.
> 
> I also feel very comfortable operation from Cyprus "beating" my
> Russian friends and I don't have 2nd station. But when I looked from
> their point I was giving them no chance at all, so I changed my mind
> and I respect them very much.
> 
> Now I will have to find a solution to compete from Russia as well!
> 
> 73s, Harry RA3AUU

you also wrote:
> 
> GT> I don't see any problems with someone winning 4 contests from REMOTE
> GT> AREA. You would still have to be good enough to win another 4 from
> GT> your HOME AREA.

You're missing the point.  There is a tremendous amount of work that goes into
maintaining ONE contest station whether it's where you live or even more so in
a foreign country.  You have to be HIGHLY motivated to set up, maintain, travel
to, use a DX QTH station time and time again and dare I say there are few that
would put themselves through that who are sub-par contest ops.  And now they
have to have a competitive station at home, too, or manage to beg or borrow
someone else's QTH for DX contests?  And have to purposefully stay away from
their DX QTH if they want to attempt to qualify for WRTC-2010?  

You're going to cut off guys like CT1BOH, W2GD, W2SC who are some of the best
and most motivated ops in the world merely because they don't have two
competitive contest stations to operate from in two different countries.  That
doesn't sound right to me. 

73
Scott Robbins, W4PA


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