[WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions

[Scott Robbins]

--- Steve London <n2icarrl em gmail.com> wrote:

> 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. 

Steve, 

That does no good -- I would need an unused competitive contest station in W8,
W9 or southwest W4.  Having the rotten luck to have had to tear down my 4 tower
station here in TN in the last 3 months makes me no less of a competitive
contester -- but operating from my "home territory" as specified for WRTC-2010
qualification will be likely be slim to none in '07 and '08.  

I'll be on, but not from here... look for P40PA in CQ WW SSB this year SOABHP. 

Uh, wait... maybe I should operate from Ohio instead? :-) 

Scott W4PA


W4PA Contest Blog - http://w4pa.journalspace.com
What Is Radio Contesting? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contesting


       
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