[WRTC2006] WRTC2010 TL Selection Critiera - Addl. Questions

[Igor Booklan SRR]

Hi Steve!

Thanks for putting this up.

Please find clarifications for HOME AREA and DX QTH.


HOME AREA          - a selection area of applicant permanent residence

HOME AREA (for US) - a selection area (within mentioned borthers) of
applicant permanent residence

DX QTH             - a QTH ouside of your selection HOME AREA

When the applicant has permanent residence in two or more areas, he
(she) may only represent one of them.


73s, Harry RA3AUU


SL> 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.
>> 

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

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

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

SL> 73,
SL> Steve, N2IC