[WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions

[Steve London]

Scott Robbins wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

Sorry, Scott, I just don't get it. It seems to me that in every major contest, 
there are great stations that go unused in every part of the USA. For years 
before he had his own station, KQ2M was a guest op at several of these stations, 
and always placed at or near the top in the SOAB HP category.

The rules certainly don't say that you can't operate from any DX QTH from now 
until July, 2010 - just that you need to find a non-DX QTH for a mere 4 contests 
over the next 2-3 years.

It would be good for Harry and the committee to clarify what a DX QTH is - A QTH 
that is outside of your selection area, or outside of your country ?

73,
Steve, N2IC